NINEVEH AND PERSEPOLIS:

AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF

ANCIENT ASSYRIA AND PERSIA,

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE

RECENT RESEARCHES IN THOSE COUNTRIES.

BY W. S. W. VAUX, M.A.,

ASSISTANT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, BRITISH MUSEUM.

FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.

LONDON:

ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE, & Co., 25, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1855.

ADVERTISEMENT.

In the present Edition, the narrative of the discovery of ancient remains in Assyria and Babylonia is brought down to the present time;

and the monuments now exhibited in the British

Museum are described according to their arrangement in that building.

July, 1855.