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Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t from its foundations. He ■wasgenerous in his gifts to the gods, and even towns asobscure as Edfu was then received from him grants ofmoney and lands. The Egyptians at first were full ofgratitude for the favours shown them, but the news of the times during the reign. They bear the dates of the 26th, 27th, 28th, 30th,and 36th years of Darius. The country of Saba (Sheba) is mentioned onone of the stelse of the isthmus. 1 Drawn by Boudier, from the engraving by Cailliaud. Dush is theKushit of the hieroglyphs, the Kysis of Grseco-Roman times, and is situatedon the southern border of the Great Oasis, about the latitude of Assuan. THE REVOLT OP KHABBISHA 221 defeat at Marathon, and the taxes with which the Susiancourt burdened them in order to make provision for thenew war with Greece, aroused a deep-seated discontent,at all events amongst those who, living in the Delta, hadhad their patriotism or their interests most affected by thedownfall of the Saite dynasty. It would appear that the
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THE GREAT TEMPLE OP DAKmS AT HAb!t. priests of Buto, whose oracles exercised an indisputableinfluence alike over Greeks and natives, had energeticallyincited the people to revolt. The storm broke in 486, anda certain Khabbisha, who perhaps belonged to the familyof Psammetichus, proclaimed himself king both at Sais andMemphis.^ Darius did not believe the revolt to be of Drawn by Boudier, from the engraving by Cailliaud.^ Herodotus does not give the name of the leader of the rebellion, butsays that it took place in the fourth year after Marathon. A demotic 222 THE LAST DAYS OP THE OLD EASTERN WORLD sufficient gravity to delay his plans for any length of time.He hastily assembled a second army, and was about tocommence hostilities on the banks of the Nile simul-taneously with those on the Hellespont, when he diedin 485, in the thirty-sixth year of his reign. He was oneof the great sovereigns of the ancient world—the greatestwithout exception of those who had ruled over Persia.Cyrus and

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