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Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram. The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan
The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan
Table of Contents
THE CRADLE OF MANKIND
CHAPTER I. BEYOND THE PALE OF THE RAILWAY (ALEPPO AND URFA)
CHAPTER II. A LAND OF DUST AND ASHES (DIARBEKR AND MARDIN)
CHAPTER III. THE MARCHES OF ANCIENT ROME (DARA AND NISIBIN)
CHAPTER IV. THE BURDEN OF NEWER NINEVEH (MOSUL)
CHAPTER V. THE TEMPLE OF THE DEVIL (SHEIKH ADI)
CHAPTER VI. THE SKIRTS OF THE MOUNTAINS (RABBAN HORMIZD, BAVIAN, AND AKRA)
CHAPTER VII. AN ORIENTAL VICH IAN VOHR (THE SHEIKH OF BARZAN)
CHAPTER VIII. A MASTER OF MISRULE (NERI AND JILU)
CHAPTER IX. THE DEBATABLE LAND (GAWAR, TERGAWAR, MERGAWAR)
CHAPTER X. TWIGS OF A WITHERED EMPIRE (URMI)
The Story of Haji Kas, and how his own Son bought him
CHAPTER XI. A LAND OF TROUBLE AND ANGUISH (URMI TO VAN)
CHAPTER XII. A SLOUGH OF DISCONTENT (VAN AND THE ARMENIANS)
CHAPTER XIII. THE LAND OF PRESTER JOHN (QUDSHANIS)
CHAPTER XIV. THE GREAT CAÑONS (THE NESTORIAN “ASHIRETS” OF HAKKIARI)
CHAPTER XV. INTRUDERS IN A PANDEMONIUM (AMADIA AND BOHTAN)
CHAPTER XVI. THE GRAVES OF DEAD EMPIRES (MOSUL TO BAGHDAD)
CHAPTER XVII. OUR SMALLEST ALLY
CHAPTER XVIII. DEAD SEA FRUIT
GLOSSARY
INDEX
Footnote
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Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram, W. A. Wigram
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The promontory to the west of the town is crowned by the ancient citadel; now a mere shell, but imposing from its situation, and surmounted by two lofty Roman columns formerly a portion of a temple portico.[10] Towards the town the hill is precipitous, but on the further side the slope is gradual; and accordingly the whole of this face, together with the two return ends, is defended by one of the most magnificent dry moats that exists anywhere in the world. It is hewn out of solid rock, with sides that are absolutely vertical; and may measure even now about thirty feet deep and not less than thirty feet wide. Formerly it could be crossed at two or three places by narrow wooden drawbridges; and the posterns to which they gave access can still be seen in the walls. At what epoch this moat was constructed we did not feel competent to determine. The walls are partly Saracenic, partly Roman, and partly Sassanian; they are now extremely ruinous and of no very formidable height.[11]
Urfa in classical days was known by the name of Edessa, and was the capital city of that king Abgarus of Osroëne, whose Epistle to our Lord is included among the Apocryphal Gospels. This tale is something more than a legend, for it dates from the beginning of the fourth century; and is related by the historians Eusebius and Moses of Khorene, who both profess to have derived their authority from contemporary documents which they had themselves inspected among the royal archives at Edessa. They tell us how the king was afflicted with leprosy, and how he sought in vain to be cured by the physicians and sorcerers of his own land. How at length he heard report of the miracles that were being wrought in Judaea by Jesus the Prophet of Galilee; and how he dispatched ambassadors to Him, entreating Him to come and heal his disease and to instruct his people, offering Him at the same time a secure asylum from the hatred of the unbelieving Jews. These ambassadors were the “certain Greeks”[12] who are mentioned in St. John’s Gospel as having been introduced to our Lord by Philip on the day of His triumphant entry into Jerusalem; and they brought back to Abgarus a verbal message (or some say an actual letter dictated by our Lord to Thomas) promising that one of His Apostles should be sent to Edessa in due time.
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