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 . le empire. It was a city of high antiquity andgreat magnificence. Six successive kings reigned init from 283 to 133 It then fell under the powerof the Romans; a usurper subsequently re-erected itsthrone, but it was again brought under subjection bythe Romans, who destroyed many of its inhabitantsby poisoning the public waters.
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 . le empire. It was a city of high antiquity andgreat magnificence. Six successive kings reigned init from 283 to 133 It then fell under the powerof the Romans; a usurper subsequently re-erected itsthrone, but it was again brought under subjection bythe Romans, who destroyed many of its inhabitantsby poisoning the public waters. A famous library of200,000 volumes was collected at Pergamos by itskings, and was afterwards carried away by Cleopatraand added to the library at Alexandria. Parchmentwas invented and first used at Peigamos. It was alsoremarkable as being the birthplace of Galen thephysician, and Apollodorus the mythologist, and asthe chief scene of the worship of JEsculapius. The ruins of this ancient city are many and grand;and the situation indicates the people who selec-ted it. It embraces in its view the plain of Per-gamos, with its chain of mountains, and is lit by therising sun. There is in the middle of the city agroup of ruins of great extent, they appear to be tho.
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