This revolution in the relations of the peoples in the interior of Asia is the turning-point in the history of antiquity.

We have now had enough experience, however, to turn the history of antiquity to account without being shipwrecked on antiquity itself.

It is one which has been illustrated in the history of modern states, not less vividly than in the history of antiquity.

Professor Maspero completes the history of antiquity in that dramatic scene in which the ancient Egyptian makes his last futile struggle for independence.

The reappearance, within the last three hundred years, of various ancient records and memorials, has shed a new light upon the history of antiquity.

The history of Antiquity requires from time to time to be rewritten.

The general histories of Antiquity of Duncker, Lenormant, Maspero, and Meyer give full treatment of Babylonian and Assyrian development.