Labels:text | screenshot | font | black and white OCR: t has been called the "cradle of civilization"'. Here has been found Man's earliest cities his earliest writings his earliest maps, and his earliest codified Laws. Abraham was born here. Here the Assyrians and Sumarians dwelt. The flames of Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace threatened Shadach, Meshach and Abednego. It housed the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Tower of Babel, and claims to be the site of the Garden of Eden. While Europe was reaching out from barbarism, the Baghdad of the "1,001 Nights" and the "Rubaiyat" poured forth the literary, scientific, and philosophical accomplishments that would be the pinnacle of Arab culture.
