Note 649 — Chapter X · THE SWORD IN BABYLONIA, ASSYRIA AND PERSIA, AND ANCIENT INDIA.
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The writer of this sentence is, curious to say, the learned Dr. Birch (p. 5, vol. i., Soc. Bib. Archæology, 1872). Even Justin (lib. i.) knew better; he makes Sesostris (ii. 3) 1,500 years older than Ninus, ‘the most ancient king of Assyria,’ whom he places in b.c. 2196–2144 (Wetzel).