Nineveh and Persepolis: An Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the Recent Researches in Those CountriesA. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1850 - 437 Seiten |
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Achæmenian Alp Arslan ancient appears Arabs Armenia army Asia Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Baghdad bas-reliefs Behistun Benjamin of Tudela Botta bricks building bull called capital celebrated century Chaldæans character conqueror conquest Ctesias cuneiform curious Cyrus Darius Darius Hystaspes doubt dynasty early East Ecbatana edifice Egypt empire Engravings Euphrates excavations feet figure Greek Gustasp Hamadán hand head Herodotus horse Hystaspes inscriptions Istakhr khalif Khorsabád Khosru king Koyunjik labours language Layard length lion Major Rawlinson Medes Media mentioned monarch monuments Mosul mound mountain Muhammedan Nebuchadnezzar Nimroud Nineveh original Ormazd palace period Persepolis Persian plain preserved princes probably provinces reign remains remarkable represented resembling river rock Roman round royal ruins Sassanian says sculptures Shahpúr side Sir R. K. Porter slabs stone Strabo supposed Syria tablets Tatar temple throne Timúr tion tomb tower travellers tribes Ván visited walls whole winged writing Xenophon Xerxes Zoroaster