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A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Figs. 71 and 7:2. —Statue of Sapor, before a grotto, near Shapiir. Front and rearview. (After Texier.) Tadmor, as it is called in the Bible, consisting of temples and pal-aces with countless columns and colonnades, and about sixty quad-rangular sepulchral towers, are among the most imposing in theworld. They were discovered in 1678, and have l>een repeatedlydescribed. Sapor was succeeded by his sons Hormizdas ano] Varahran 1.(Bahram), whose brief reigns lasted only from 272 till 276. The rARAM I!AX J I.
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Figs. 71 and 7:2. —Statue of Sapor, before a grotto, near Shapiir. Front and rearview. (After Texier.) Tadmor, as it is called in the Bible, consisting of temples and pal-aces with countless columns and colonnades, and about sixty quad-rangular sepulchral towers, are among the most imposing in theworld. They were discovered in 1678, and have l>een repeatedlydescribed. Sapor was succeeded by his sons Hormizdas ano] Varahran 1.(Bahram), whose brief reigns lasted only from 272 till 276. The rARAM I!AX J I. 267 SOU of the latter, Varahnin II., next inouiited the throne, andreigned until 298. It was during liis time that jNIani (Manes, orManichaeus), the founder of a new religion, was put to remarkable man, whose religious ideas caused a commotion,not only in Persia, but in all Christendom as far as Gaid, had con-ceived the thought of instituting a universal religion, founded uponall that was best in other faiths. The doctrine that lay at its foun-dation was that of Zoroast
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