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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

George Smith (1840–1876)

Smith, George. A celebrated English Assyriologist; born in London, March 26, 1840; died at Aleppo, Aug. 19, 1876. Part of his published works are: ‘The Chaldean Account of Genesis’; ‘Assyria from the Earliest Times till the Fall of Nineveh’ (1875); ‘Assyrian Discoveries’ (1875), an account of his own travels and researches; ‘The Assyrian Eponym Canon’ (1876); ‘History of Babylonia,’ edited by A. H. Sayce (1877); ‘History of Sennacherib,’ edited by A. H. Sayce (1878).