Excerpt from History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, Vol. 8 Page Frieze of Archers at Susa Frontiszoiece Clay seal with Cartouche of Sabaco 11 A Phoenician galley with two banks of oars 17 The Pass of Leguia, in Lebanon 28 Guard at the water-mill 29 Sennacherib receiving the submission of the Jews in his camp before Lachish 31 A raid among the woods and mountains 43 The fleet of Sennacherib on the N ar-marratum 49 A skirmish in the marshes 52 The horse of N ergal-ushez1b falling 1n the battle 54 The mounds of Nineveh seen from the terrace of a house in Mosul 63 King Sennacherib watching the transport of a colossal statue 65 Assyrian has-reliefs at Bavian 66 Unknown subjects painted in the Fifth Tomb of the Eastern Kings 68 Great Assyrian Stele at Bavian. 69 An Assyrian cavalry raid through the woods 73 Transport of a winged bull on a sledge 74 Sennacherib 79 One of the Egyptian 1vories found in Assyria 83 Stone lion at Hamadan 87 View of Hamadan and Mount Elvend in winter 88 Monument commemorative of Midas 95 A Phrygian god 96 The mother-goddess between lions 97 The mother-goddess and Atys 98 The god-men associated with the sun and other deities 99 The steep banks of the Halys failed to arrest them 104 View over the plain of Sardes 105 A conflict with two griffins 110 Scythians armed for war 111 Inhabited caves on the banks of the Halys 115 The town of Kharkhar with its triple rampart 131. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.