Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . fears, bear witness to the departed splendorof a period of grandeur ; but ruin reigns supreme, and even thetombs that housed the bodies of the dead kings have beencrumbling for ages. Times relentless touch has worn awaythe clear-cut features of these monuments and destroyed thebeauty of their lineaments, yet they still endure to mark dailyby their shadows the advance of centuries across the dial ofeternity and to give tangible evidence of the ancient magnifi-cence of the Persians, whose
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . fears, bear witness to the departed splendorof a period of grandeur ; but ruin reigns supreme, and even thetombs that housed the bodies of the dead kings have beencrumbling for ages. Times relentless touch has worn awaythe clear-cut features of these monuments and destroyed thebeauty of their lineaments, yet they still endure to mark dailyby their shadows the advance of centuries across the dial ofeternity and to give tangible evidence of the ancient magnifi-cence of the Persians, whose law, like that of the Medes, knewno change and whose sceptre once swayed the fortunes of theEastern World. The brilliant career of Cyrus, the founder of the Achreme-nians, took Asia captive by its splendid triumphs, and his suc-cesses have thrown such a halo about his memory that it issometimes diiScult to view the events of his reign in their truelight and separate facts from the legends gathered about hisname. This is due in large measure to an early, and for the 278. The ToMit of Cvrus the (tKeat
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