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Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eply furrowed these mounds,while the grass has crept over them and made green alike thepalaces of the kings and the temples of the gods.^ 1 Lying upon the left bank of the Upper Tigris ai?e two enormous moundssurrounded by heavy earthen ramparts, about eight miles in circuit. This isthe site of ancient Nineveh, the immense enclosing ridges being the ruined citywalls. These ramparts are still, in their crumbled condition, about fifty feet PALACE-MOUNDS AND PALACES. 55 Palace-Mounds and Palaces. —In order to give a certain dig-nity to the royal residence, to secure the fresh breezes, and to ren-der them more easily defended, the Assyrians, as well as the Baby-lonians and the Persians, built their palaces upon lofty artificialterraces, or platforms. These eminences, which appear like natural,flat-topped hills, were constructed with an almost incredible expen-diture of human labor. The great palace-mound at Nineveh, calledby the natives Koyunjik, covers an area of one hundred acres, and
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RESTORATION OF A COURT IN SARGONS PALACE AT KHORSABAD. (After Fergusson.) is from seventy to ninety feet high. Out of the material compos-ing it could be built four pyramids as large as that of Cheops.Upon this mound stood several of the most splendid palaces ofthe Ninevite kings. The group of buildings constituting the royal residence was high, and average about one hundred and fifty in width. The lower part ofthe wall was constructed of solid stone masonry; the upper portion of driedbrick. This upper and frailer part, crumbling into earth, has completely buriedthe stone basement. The Turks of to-day quarry the stone from these oldwalls for their buildings. 56 ASSYRIA. often of enormous extent; the various courts, halls, corridors, andchambers of the Palace of Sennacherib, which surmounted thegreat platform at Nineveh, covered an area of over ten acres.The palaces were usually one-storied. The walls, constructed chieflyof dried brick, were immensely thick and heavy. The rooms andgall

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