Ashur Bani Pal
- Ancient Persia
Comparison of the Assyrian inscription of Banipal and Achaemenid Cyrus
The Assyrians, who lived in a part of northern Iraq and Syria about three thousand years ago, captured the cities of Elam and Shush belonging to the Elamite government in western Iran and razed them to the ground.”They came, destroyed, burned, killed,…
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Comparing Cyrus the Great and the kings before him
Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, who made the rich plain of Susa his field of gallantry, says : "I besieged and attacked thirty-four fortresses and countless cities that were subject to them, and their people…
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