Professor Lyon's Reading.

In the fifteenth century B. C. the kings of Babylon, Assyria and the neighboring countries, and also the governors of Syria, were engaged in an active correspondence with the eighteenth Egyptian dynasty. The medium of communication was the Assyrian language. Some 300 of the dispatches were found at ElArmana in Egypt in 1887, relating to royal intermarriage, military operations, and the giving of presents. This correspondence is the subject of Professor Lyon's Assyrian Reading in the Fogg Museum at 4 p. m. today.