kunyunjik

Updated: May 21, 2025

"Just the same as in our day, a handful of ragged shepherds descended from the Mesopotamian peoples extinct save for them were tending their sheep at Kunyunjik, on those Babylonian ruins where once a mighty metropolis stood, and where five million people lived and moved, trafficked, loved, hated, fought, conquered, died so now to-day, perhaps, we may run across a handful of white savages crouching in caves or rude huts among the debris of the Place de l'Opera, or Unter den Linden, or "

George Allan England - Darkness and Dawn