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Excerpt from Egypt in Asia: A Plain Account of Pre-Biblical Syria and Palestine The present work is addressed to laymen and others, and purposes to give a plain account of the affairs of Syria and Palestine before the rise of Israel. Modern research in the East has greatly widened the outlook of history by the accumulation of documents relative to early and vanished ages of civilisation. Much of this material is intelligible or accessible only to special students. The general reading public is hardly aware that a continuous narrative Of times and peoples lately regarded as prehistorical, can now be restored from first-hand evidence. Yet in many passages such a narrative is full of intimate details and living interest. The importance of the period touched in the following pages needs no demonstration in respect to its bearing on the difficult questions of Scriptural interpreta tion. Of late years a claim not less weighty has been advanced for the culture of the ancient East, as the pre ponderating factor in the shaping of all other civilisations, including our own. An introductory chapter describes the physical features of Syria, and brings into relief the controlling effect of geographical conditions on the political fortunes of the land. There follows an account of the migrations, the conquests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.