Ancient History from the Monuments: Persia from the Earliest Period to the Arab Conquest

Achæmenian Alexander ancient Ardashír Armenia arms army Arsacidæ Arsakes Artabanus Artaxerxes Asia Minor Asiatic Assyria Astyages Athens attack Babylon battle Behistán Cambyses cavalry chief coins conquest Crassus Ctesiphon Cuneiform Cyrus Daniel Darius the Mede death doubt early Ecbatana Egypt Egyptian emperor empire Euphrates feet figure Flandin force Galerius Gomátes Greece Greek hand Hatra hence Heraclius Herodotus horse Hystaspes inscriptions Jews Julian Khosrú king kingdom Magian Mardonius Media Mesopotamia Mithradates Mithradates II monarch monuments Morier mountain native Nebuchadnezzar Nisibis notice Nushírwán Ochus Ormazd palace Parthian peace perhaps period Persepolis Persian Phraates Phraates III plain platform princes probably Professor Rawlinson province race reign remarkable revolt Roman Rome royal ruler Sassanian satraps sculpture Shahpúr sian Sir H. C. Rawlinson Sir R. K. Porter story success successor Surena Susa Syria throne Tigris tion Tiridates tomb Trajan tribes troops Varahrán victory Vologases Western whole Xerxes Zoroaster Zoroastrian