The Bible and Other Sacred Books #261342

The Turanian people, says George Smith, who appear to have been the origi nal inhabitants of the country, invented the cuneiform mode of writing; all the earli est inscriptions are in that language, but the proper names of most of the kings and principal persons are written in Semitic, in direct contrast to the body of the inscrip tions. The Semites appear to have conquered the Turanians, although they had not yet imposed their language on the country. Records of the Past, vol. Iii, p. 3.