“One of Hammurabi's letters proves that the king regulated the calendar, and it is legitimate to suppose that he sought the advice of his astrologers as to the times when intercalary months were to be inserted.” — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“The great pyramid-builders of the IVth Dynasty seem to have been the last true Memphites.” — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“The idea was that in Palaeolithic days, contemporary with the Glacial Age of Northern Europe and America, the climate of Egypt was entirely different… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“As far as we can tell, then, Aha and Narmer were the first conquerors of the North, the unifiers of the kingdom, and the… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“The country to the north of Babylonia was known as Assyria at the time of the kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon, and… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“For the First Dynasty of Babylon, to which the famous Hammurabi belonged, was very probably of Arab origin, to judge by the forms of… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“After the reconsolidation of the Egyptian people, with perhaps an autocratic class of Semitic origin and a populace of indigenous Nilotic race, we have… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“For the culture of the Semites was Sumerian, the Semitic races owing their civilization to the Sumerians. That is as much as to say… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“The Kheta, or Hittites, were certainly not Semites, yet the Hyksos names are definitely Semitic. In fact it is most probable that the Hyksos,… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“Certain elements of the early dynastic civilization, which do not appear in that of the earlier pre-dynastic period, resemble well-known elements of the civilization… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“The mere fact of so large and important an obelisk, inscribed with a Semitic text by an early Babylonian king, being found at Susa… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“In fact, this communication seems to go so far back in time that we are gradually being led to perceive the possibility that the… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“But at the end of the XIIIth Dynasty the great invasion of the Hyksos probably occurred, and all Northern Egypt fell under the Arab… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
