Excerpt from The National Quarterly Review, Vol. 15: June and September, 1867 In the second century. Philo-biblius, 'a learned orientalist, translated into Greek, from the original Phoenician, the Antiquities of Sanchoniathon;2but, with the exception of some fragments. The work was lost in the dark ages. Because the original disappeared altogether, the majority of modern scholars have long regarded those Antiquities as altogether spurious. Their theory being that the work was forged by philo-biblius. There has always been a small numberm' the. Most learned orientalists and most judicious critics who, however, have never doubted the authenticity of the trans lation of philo-biblius. Thus did the matter stand until 1825, when an eminent linguist announced to the world that he had found the whole manuscript of Philo's transla tion.' After having been duly examined by a committee of learned men from several of the German universities. The manuscript was translated into Latin and copiously anno tated by F. Wagenfeld, Director of the Lyceum of Hanover; and Dr. G. F. Grotefend, another German savant, ete an elaborate and valuable preface to it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.