. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . in the battle between Cyrus andCroesus, the Persians being unable tomake any impression upon their com-pact mass. (See note on Bk. vii. , woodcut No. V.) It was afterwardsadopted by the Greeks (see At. Eg. vol. 29o, and p. 359 to 363). In attack-ing for
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . in the battle between Cyrus andCroesus, the Persians being unable tomake any impression upon their com-pact mass. (See note on Bk. vii. , woodcut No. V.) It was afterwardsadopted by the Greeks (see At. Eg. vol. 29o, and p. 359 to 363). In attack-ing fortified places, the Egyptians eitherused the scaling ladder, or in a regularsiege approached under cover of thearrows of the bowmen, and battered thewalls with the testudo (see woodcut in note on Bk. vii. ch. 89, and belowNo. VI.). This was at first a long pike,the men being j^rotected under a frame-work covered with hides, the rude pro-totype of the testudo arietaria, which wasemployed in after times by the Assyrians(see the Nimroud sculptures),and by theRomans and others. It was against thisand the moveable towers of those days(the bulwarks of Deut. xx. 20), thatthe Egyptians in their early fortifica-tions introduced the scarp and counter-scarp, and the parallel wall in the ditch;which, with the sculptures of the 12th. dyBasty, show that these military en-gines were invented at least 2000 yearsbefore our era. Mining was also adoptedby them.—[G.
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