Excerpt from The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, Vol. 3 of 4: Or, the History, Geography, and Antiquities of Chald a, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia, Collected and Illustrated From Ancient and Modern Sources View in Mazanderan - the Caspian Sea in the distance (after Fraser) Pigeon-towers near Isfahan (after Morier) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.