Congrès international des orientalistes, Transactions of the second session of the international Congress of Orientalists… (1876)
“ What evidence, not merely faith-exciting but knowledge-giving, have we of the earliest manifestation of Assyrian or Semitic civilization—that is to say, of literature, architectural and sculptural art, established ritualistic religion, priest and warrior castes, administrative officials-parallel in time with the evidence of such which Egypt has yielded? The Hycksos kings, in the course of their 500 years' usurpation of the delta, accepted the civilization, the arts, and, in part, the religion, of the higher race which they had partially subdued. ”
