Today’s free book is F.C. Norton’s Handbook of Assyriology, which comes with a useful collection of images. This title is in the public domain. Frances Collins Norton [1848-1921], Bible Student’s Handbook of Assyriology. A Popular Manual of Useful Information for the Elementary Study of Oriental Archaeology, and a Help for Young Students and Teachers of…
Today’s free book is William S.W. Vaux’s description of the research on Ancient Assyria and Persia up to 1850. This public domain title was digitised using a copy from Terence C. Mitchell’s library using my new overhead scanning equipment. William Sandys Wright Vaux [1876-1941], Nineveh and Persepolis: An Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia,…
Archibald H. Sayce’s “Fresh Light From the Ancient Monuments” [5th ed.] is now available in PDF for free download. This book is in the public domain.
The following public domain article is now available on-line: Theophilus G. Pinches, “Assur and Nineveh,” Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute 42 (1910): 154-176. Assur and Nineveh Assur Of all the little explanatory verses on the Old Testament there are probably but few which are of greater interest than that referring to the…
