The Cradle of Mankind: Life in Eastern Kurdistan
- Title
- The Cradle of Mankind: Life in Eastern Kurdistan
- Creator
- William Arthur Wigram and Sir Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram.
- Date
- 1914
- Description
- W. A. Wigram describes the ruins of Nineveh and recounts the city’s final overthrow by Median and Babylonian forces. He writes that the Assyrian dynasty perished in flames in its own palace and concludes that after Nineveh fell there were no true Assyrians left, only a half-bred remnant produced by incessant intermarriage, scattered and incapable of recovery. He emphasizes that what remained at the site were walls, moats, and buried palaces rather than a continuing Assyrian people.
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- W. A. Wigram and E. T. A. Wigram, The Cradle of Mankind: Life in Eastern Kurdistan (London: A. and C. Black, 1914; 2nd ed. 1922), pp. 83–84.
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- Item sets
- assyrians
