Civilization of Babylon and Assyria

Gustave Le Bon, the author of this book, was a historian before he was a philosopher. He became a philosopher because he was a historian. His care in studying the ancient mother is the care of the financial historian who tries to write history as the history of civilization, social development, and the advancement of the arts, and not the history of wars, princes, and anecdotes about the splendor of this angel or the generosity of that prince. In this book, we read a description of the first steps in the ladder of human advancement as they were represented in the civilizations of Babylon and Assyria.
Babylon and Assyria are two kingdoms that rose in the land of the two rivers, which is roughly Iraq. The reader does not think that the connection between the Abbasid state and the Assyrian state is severed. The Abbasid caliphs found the people of Assyria and Babylon in Iraq, and they also found those Jews who had been exiled from Jerusalem 1,400 centuries ago to the land of Iraq. Even their captain in the days of the Abbasids used to establish his right to the union over those who had preceded him 1,400 years ago in the days of exile, i.e. captivity.
The translator, Mahmoud Khairat, took great care in adhering to the original. He succeeded in doing so with great success. This book should be added to the ancient history library of every Arab intellectual.