Ruins of Ancient Cities, Volumen1

adorned afterwards Alexander ancient antiquity appears Arabs arches architecture Arrian Augustus Aurelian baths beauty building built Cæsar called capital celebrated chariot colossal columns Croesus desert destroyed Diodorus Doric order edifice Egypt Egyptian emperor empire entire erected excavated feet high figures Forum four fragments gates glory granite Greece Greek Herodotus honour horses hundred Ilium immense inhabitants inscriptions Jupiter king length Luxor magnificent manner marble ment miles Milesians Miletus monuments mountains Nineveh obelisks once ornaments painted palace Palmyra Pausanias Persepolis Persians Petra pillars plain Pliny Plutarch Pompeii portico present preserved reign remains rich river rock Roman Rome round ruins says sculptures seen sepulchres side Sidon siege spot standing statues stone stood Strabo supposed temple theatre Thebes thou thousand tion tomb Totila towers town Trajan traveller tumulus Tyre vast victory village visited walls whole Zenobia