538 Sippar taken. Babylon surrenders. Triumphal entrance of Cyrus into the city. Babylonia a Persian province.
FOOTNOTES
[15] [The theories of those who deny the existence of the Sumerians have been already given in the Introductory Essay, pages 309-317, by Professor Halévy, the leader of the anti-Sumerian school. The present trend of opinion is, however, largely toward the Sumerian theory.]
CHAPTER I. LAND AND PEOPLE
Cities have been, and vanished; fanes have sunk,
Heaped into shapeless ruin; sands o’erspread