Late Babylonian Letters e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It is consequently possible to trace fairly completely the changes in the colloquial language, as far as it is used in the ancient correspondence, over a period of fifteen hundred years. The whole trend of the material afforded by these letters goes to Show that very little really has changed in Southern Mesopotamia during the last two or three thousand years, the products being materially the same, and the people closely allied by race and descent. The religion and language have changed, but the manners and customs of life are much the same as they have always been.