Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments

About this book

A newly deciphered inscription can change how an old story is understood. A. H. Sayce examines discoveries from Egypt and Mesopotamia at a time when archaeology was bringing unfamiliar voices into debates about the Bible.

Monuments, royal records and ancient texts provide the material for his comparisons, many of which reflect the arguments of nineteenth-century scholarship. The book captures the excitement of recovering names and events from languages long unread. Its strongest passages show historical knowledge forming from stone, clay and painstaking interpretation.