Quote by Leonard William King

“On their invasion of Babylonia the Semites fell absolutely under Sumerian influence, and, although they eventually conquered and absorbed the Sumerians, their civilization remained…

— Leonard William King

“Moreover, by means of the Semitic inhabitants of Babylonia Sumerian culture continued to exert its influence on other and more distant races. We have…

— Leonard William King

“The kings of the First Babylonian Dynasty wrote their votive inscriptions sometimes in Sumerian, sometimes in Semitic Babylonian; at other times they employed both…

— Leonard William King

“The Semite had avenged himself for the conquest of his country by the northern mountaineers centuries before. They no longer formed a barrier which…

— A. H. SAYCE

“In the earliest days, then, Egypt received elements of Sumerian culture through a Semitic medium, which introduced Semitic elements into the language of the…

— Leonard William King

“M. Halévy started a theory to the effect that Sumerian was not a language at all, in the proper sense of the term, but…

— Leonard William King

“The Sumerian language was originally that of the hunter and fisher peoples, who lived in the marshland and the Eastern Arabia littoral region, and…

— Margarethe Uepermann

“There are difficulties involved in regarding the Babylonian tradition as a single or homogeneous phenomenon following just one line of development. If, despite this,…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“It didn’t disturb the Sumerians that their script was ill-suited for writing poetry. They didn’t invent it in order to copy spoken language, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Assyrian and Aramaic had long separate histories before the time of Nebuchadrezzar. But evidence shows that these languages came into contact with each other…

— James John Courtenay

“while the examples of their art and the representations of their form and features, which were also afforded by the diggings at Telloh, proved…

— Leonard William King

“It is found that Assyrian and Canaanite have certain terms in common, which are not found in other Semitic languages.”

— John Courtenay James