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HE purpose of this book is to provide not only a popular account of the religion and mythology of ancient Babylonia and Assyria.
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Lewis Spence was a Scottish historian (1874-1955) who is best known for his volumes on world mythology and his five Atlantis books. The History of Atlantis (1926) is considered his finest.
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