Nineveh and Persepolis: An Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the Recent Researches in Those Countries, Tom 18A. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1850 - 436 |
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... Remains of Persia . - First period of the Achæmenian Dynasty -Persepolis - Ancient and Modern Names - Character of ... Remains at Nakshi Rustám - Bahram V. Shahpur I. and Valerian - Fire Temple - Fire Altars - Nakshi Rejib - Rhey ...
... Remains of Persia . - First period of the Achæmenian Dynasty -Persepolis - Ancient and Modern Names - Character of ... Remains at Nakshi Rustám - Bahram V. Shahpur I. and Valerian - Fire Temple - Fire Altars - Nakshi Rejib - Rhey ...
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... remains which we possess of the Phoenician and Cilician monumental characters . It has been already noticed that the name of one of the gods , Nebo , enters into composition with many other words to form the names of various princes and ...
... remains which we possess of the Phoenician and Cilician monumental characters . It has been already noticed that the name of one of the gods , Nebo , enters into composition with many other words to form the names of various princes and ...
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... remains as we have at present , it is clear that this event must have taken place while Nineveh was still a chief town of the Assyrian Empire ; while the Persians , Syrians , Phoenicians , Cilicians , and Egyptians were subject to them ...
... remains as we have at present , it is clear that this event must have taken place while Nineveh was still a chief town of the Assyrian Empire ; while the Persians , Syrians , Phoenicians , Cilicians , and Egyptians were subject to them ...
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... remains of the cotemporary history of the people themselves . Of the later writers , Xenophon , Ctesias , and Arrian , we know that the last borrowed his materials almost word for word from the accounts of Aristobulus and Pto- lemy ...
... remains of the cotemporary history of the people themselves . Of the later writers , Xenophon , Ctesias , and Arrian , we know that the last borrowed his materials almost word for word from the accounts of Aristobulus and Pto- lemy ...
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... remains of the former glory of Persia , of which we shall have to describe hereafter , require an outline of the real or supposed history of the people themselves . " No man , " as Sir Robert Ker Porter has remarked , " can enter Persia ...
... remains of the former glory of Persia , of which we shall have to describe hereafter , require an outline of the real or supposed history of the people themselves . " No man , " as Sir Robert Ker Porter has remarked , " can enter Persia ...
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