The Tomb of Semiramis hermetically sealed

The mythical Mesopotamian queen Semiramis, or Šammīrām (Shammuramat in Akkadian), mentioned by various ancient sources as the wife of the equally mythicized King Ninus, eponymous founder of the city of Nineveh and of the first Assyrian empire, is the protagonist of an unusual alchemical text of the seventeenth century.
The Tomb of Semiramis have first been published in Latin in 1674 and shortly after in English printed in London by William Cooper (included in William Cooper’s alchemical comp...