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Babylonish Coffin and Lid of Green Glazed Pottery

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Stone is very rare in Chaldea, and could be brought only at great expense from a distance. Hence all the buildings of earlier ages were built of bricks. o we read of the Tower of Babel, that "they had bricks for stone."

The outsides of the buildings were covered with burnt or kiln-dried bricks to keep out the rain. More elaborate specimens of their pottery appear in articles for domestic uses, and especially in their coffins.

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Errors Chains: How Forged and Broken
By Frank S. Dobbins
Published in 1883
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