Historians' History of the World 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. Arabs who dwelt in towns or villages grew to be Aramaeans; even before that they had always used the Aramaic language in their inscriptions - where they did not write in Greek - because Arabic was not then regarded as a suitable language for use in writing.