. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE KUIXS OF PEBSErOLIS, AS SEEN FROM THE NORTH. CHAPTER I THE IRANIAN CONQUEST The Iranian religions—Cyrus in Lydia and at Babylon: Cambyses inEgypt—Darius and the organisation of the empire. rTHE Median empire is the least knownof all those which held sway for atime over the destinies of a portion ofWestern Asia. The reason of this isnot to be ascribed to the shortness ofits duration: the Chaldsean empire ofNebuchadrezzar lasted for a period quiteas brief, and yet the main outlines of its 1 Drawn by Boudier, from the engraving in Co

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. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE KUIXS OF PEBSErOLIS, AS SEEN FROM THE NORTH. CHAPTER I THE IRANIAN CONQUEST The Iranian religions—Cyrus in Lydia and at Babylon: Cambyses inEgypt—Darius and the organisation of the empire. rTHE Median empire is the least knownof all those which held sway for atime over the destinies of a portion ofWestern Asia. The reason of this isnot to be ascribed to the shortness ofits duration: the Chaldsean empire ofNebuchadrezzar lasted for a period quiteas brief, and yet the main outlines of its 1 Drawn by Boudier, from the engraving in Coste SSjllllMililllllllJllfcl ^^^ Flandin. The vignette, drawn by Faucher-Gudin,i|l!1fflil|ltillli!rl f^^^ ^ ^^^t^^tte in terra-cotta, found in Southern Russia, represents a young Scythian.

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