Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . ^1 w i , i / (f 7- i was first known to history only as Nineveh; but it af-terwards became the capital—first of the kingdom ofAssyria, then of the Assyrian empire. According toScripture, it was founded by Asshur about 2230 ,but according to Diodorus Siculus (quoting Ctesias),it was founded by Ninus 2183 This agreeswith o
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . ^1 w i , i / (f 7- i was first known to history only as Nineveh; but it af-terwards became the capital—first of the kingdom ofAssyria, then of the Assyrian empire. According toScripture, it was founded by Asshur about 2230 ,but according to Diodorus Siculus (quoting Ctesias),it was founded by Ninus 2183 This agreeswith other good authorities, according to whom As-shur was the founder of tlie monarchy of Assyria,while Ninus founded the Assyrian empii^e and city ofNineveh. Justin, the Roman historian who abridgedthe history of Trogus Pompeius, in the second cen-tury, gives the following account of Ninus. lie says, By his lust for empire he first brought wars againstthe people, as yet unused to resistance, to the veryborders of Libya—which name was anciently appliedto all Africa His neighbors there-fore being subdued, when by accession of strengthhe was stronger, he passed to others, and every newvictory being the instrument of the next one, he sub-dued the whole East. Hi
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