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The contumacious survivors of the elder element in the population, however, even when successful, seem not to have tried to set up new capitals or to reestablish the pre-Semitic state of things.

From The Ancient East by Hogarth, D. G. (David George)

Among the most interesting of recent discoveries at Nippur are pre-Semitic tablets containing accounts similar to those recorded in the book of Genesis, from which in some cases the latter have clearly been derived.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

Were the pre-Semitic Elamites originally speakers of an agglutinative language, like the Sumerians and present-day Basques, who were conquered in prehistoric times by a people of Aryan speech?

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

But whether Babylonian astrotheology was not really primitive or whether it went back to the pre-Semitic period we do not yet know.

From A Primer of Assyriology by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

For example, the canalization of Mesopotamia gives us the ancient pre-Semitic Babylonian state, while the extremely ancient Egyptian civilization rests upon the application of the Nile to agriculture.

From Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History by Labriola, Antonio