'The Banquet of Nitocris', 1890. Creator: Unknown.

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'The Banquet of Nitocris', 1890. Nitocris, 6th century BC Babylonian queen and last pharoah of the Sixth Dynasty, invited the murderers of her brother to a banquet, then flooded the sealed chamber from the Nile. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

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