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 Akkad, Hilprecht's Exploration in Bible Lands 1903, the various introductions to the University of Pennsylvania publications, Driver's Modern research as illustrating the Bible, 1909 and the various books of exploration such as Layard (Nineveh), Rassam, Loftus, Peters (Nippur), etc. For Egypt, the most interesting gleaning is from Breasted's Ancient Records (5 v. 1906-7) and the publications of the Egypt Exploration Fund and the Egyptian Research Account. For the general state of literature and culture Erman's Ancient Egyptian Life is still the best aid, but Breasted's Illustrated History is hardly less useful and Wilkinson's ancient Egyptians has plan of the Ramesseum.

If any one is interested to go into the matter of the numerous legendary accounts of early date regarding antediluvian libraries, he will find the richest source in Fabricius' collection of Pseudepigraphic literature (Cod. pseudepig V. T.) and may get clues to the literature from Schmidt's Bibliothekswissenschaft (p. 6-7) or Richardson's Antedeluvian libraries. (Library Journal, v. 15, 1890, p. C 40-44.)

For Assyro-Babylonian libraries the interested scholar will find first hand information