Transcriber's Note:

Table of Contents edited with additional entries for user convenience.

Punctuation has been standardised.

Ditto marks in the [ Indexes] have been replaced with the actual words for clarity.

This book was written in a period when many words had not become standarized in their spelling. Numerous words have multiple spelling variations in the text. These have been left unchanged unless noted below:

Page 6 - added hyphen to [ Assurbani-pal] for consistency (Assur-bani-pal and his Queen)

Page 86 - Oversized T-shaped symbol replaced with [ "T"]

Page 115 - missing ' added at end ('Post hoc, ergo propter [ hoc.'])

Page 132 - Bit-Yagina is everywhere else in the book called [ Beth-Yagina], changed for consistency

Page 149 - 'eities' corrected to (the [ cities], in their)

Page 160 - 'Assyriam' corrected to (of the [ Assyrian])

Page 162 - 'Merodoch-Baladan' corrected to ( [ Merodach-Baladan] had formed)

Footnote 2 - removed extra apostrophe 'Sallimanu (Solomon, [ the]) god of peace) directs.'