Media, Babylon and Persia - including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war (1889) (14778778554)

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Title: Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna), 1835-1924
Subjects: Zoroastrianism Iran -- History Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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es little reason to dispute/ The immense chasmbetween this remote, misty past and the dawn ofrecorded historical times, though still greatly mixedwith myth, we can partly bridge over, owing to Pro-fessor Sayces Hittite discoveries. He has shown, bya comparative study of the peculiar rock-sculpturesat Boghaz-Keui in Cappadocia, at Ibriz in Cilicia, atKarabel, near Smyrna, and in many more places ofAsia Minor, with their inscriptions in charactersidentical with those found at Hamath,f that thispowerful and gifted Hamitic race, the Hittites, atone time covered and ruled the whole of the regionbetween the Black and Mediterranean seas, as fareast as the Halys, and probably somewhat beyond,leaving their traces not only in those sculptures, butin several sanctuaries of their religion, devoted tothe worship of the nature-goddess common to themand their Canaanitic and Semitic brethren, and whose *See ^ Story of Chaldea, Chapter II., especially pp. 136-139.f See Story of Assyria, ill. 5, p. 36.
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The fall of Nineveh was the destruction of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh in 612 BCE. Nineveh was the capital of the powerful Assyrian Empire, which dominated the ancient Near East for several centuries. However, after a series of military defeats, the city was sacked and destroyed by a coalition of Babylonian, Median, and Scythian forces. The fall of Nineveh marked the end of the Assyrian Empire and was a major turning point in the history of the ancient Near East. The event is described in the Bible in the book of Nahum, and it continues to be the subject of historical and archaeological research.