BOOK REVIEW-Streams of history early civilizations
Gives glimpses of some of
the most characteristic features of the countries and peoples in ancient times
in the Near East: the early herders; those living in the two great river
valleys-the Nile and the Tigro-Euphrates; and the Jews and Phoenicians living
between these two valleys.
There is a boat on the cover. We see no harrows or steel plows such as we have
today, and the grain that is being sown, we call wheat, barley, or millet, but they
call it corn.
From this
book,I know that the Egyptians gave the world in its youthtime
its first lessons in writ-ing, in paper making, in building, in carving
statues, in measuring, and more than any other people of the olden time, taught
the belief that the soul never dies
