The First Chaldean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt Quotes

“Sea. Nothing could offer more striking contrasts than the country on either bank. On the east, the ground rises abruptly to a height of about 3000 feet, resembling a natural rampart flanked with towers and bastions: behind this extends an immense table-land, slightly undulating and intersected in all”
― Archibald Henry Sayce, The First Chaldean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt