Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1895 — Site of Belshazzar's Palace. [ARTICLE]

Site of Belshazzar's Palace.

Collector. On the site of the great palace of the Kings of Babylon, where Bel-

shazzar held his feast, a black basalt statue, covered with fine inscriptions, has been found by Arab dig - gers and sent to Constantinople. The finds of the French American explorers in Southern Babylonia all belong to the Turkish Government, and are taken to the Imperial Ottoman Museum at Constantinople, where there are now no less than 50,000 newly discovered inscribed objects from Sippara, where the Turks themselves are excavating; from Tel-loh; where the French are and from Niffir, the American field. At Tel-loh, lately,»after M. Sarzac, the French agent, left, the Arabs employed by him came upon a large chamber filledjwith inscribed clajjj tablets, most of wb'ch they sold to Armenian, Syrian and Jewish brokers, who succeeded in getting a part of the collection to London ard Paris, The remainder was seized by the authorities at Bagdad. v