Identifier: ninevehpersepoli00vaux (find matches)
Title: Nineveh and Persepolis: an historical sketch of ancient Assyria and Persia, with an account of the recent researches in those countries
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885
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Publisher: London : A. Hall, Virtue & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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inhabitants of that province were well affected to him, anddelivered into his hands the rival leader. Soon after, a moreformidable rebellion broke out: Assyria and Armenia joinedtogether, and Media combined with them, in an attempt to recovertheir independence. Electing to the throne a real or supposeddescendant of the ancient line of kings, they fought six battleswith the generals whom Darius sent against them, and, appa-rently with such success, that the king himself was in the endcompelled to repair in person to the scene of conflict. In thethird year of his reign, Darius ascended from Babylon to Media,brought his enemy almost immediately to action, defeated him atEhages, and taking him prisoner put him to death at Ecbatana. Major Kawlinson remarks on the simihirity of the description ofthe operations of Xabuchodonosor, as detailed in the book of Judith,with those of Darius, which may be collected from the Behistuninscriptions ; and states that, admitting the identity of Phiaortes
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