Nineveh and Persepolis: An Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the Recent Researches in Those Countries |
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Achæmenian ancient appears Arabs Armenia army Asia Assyrian Babylon Babylonian bas-relief Behistán Botta bricks building bull called capital celebrated Chaldæans character chariot cloth Colonel Rawlinson conqueror conquest Ctesias Cuneiform Cuneiform inscriptions curious Cyaxares Cyrus Dareius Deioces doubt dynasty early East Ecbatana edifice Edition Egypt empire Engravings Euphrates excavations Fcap feet figures fragments gilt edges Greek Gustasp hand head Herodotus horses Illustrations Istakhr Khorsabád Khosrú king Koyunjik labours Layard length lion Loftus Medes Median mentioned monarch monuments Mosul mound mountains Muhammedan Nebuchadnezzar Nimrúd Nineveh Nisroch original Ormazd palace period Persepolis Persian plain portion Post 8vo preserved princes probably provinces reign remains remarkable represented resembling river rock Roman royal ruins Sassanian says sculptures Sennacherib side Sir R. K. Porter slab stone Syria tablets temple throne Tigris Tímúr tion tomb travellers tribes visited walls Warka warriors whole winged Xenophon Xerxes Zoroaster