Books by George Smith

Before George Smith's early death in 1876, he was writing a history of Babylonia, and it was prepared for press by A. H. Sace and published posthumously in 1877. Smith traces the story of the Babylonian empire from mythical times to its conquest by Persia in the sixth century BCE.

In 1876, shortly before his early death, Assyriologist George Smith (1840-76) published this work, which drew extraordinary parallels between much earlier Babylonian documents and the biblical book of Genesis. The second edition, reissued here, was published in 1880, with corrections and additional material provided by Archibald Sayce.