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and Assyrians. The Greek historians said
as much, in fact; and modern commenta-
tors used to attribute the assertion to un-
due modesty. Since, however, the records
of the libraries have been unearthed it has
been recognised that the Babylonians were
in no way inferior in the matter of original
scientific investigation to other races of the
same era.
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