CHAPTER XXVI.

Results of the Discoveries to Chronology and History.--Names of Assyrian Kings in the Inscriptions.--A Date fixed.--The Name of Jehu.--The Obelisk King.--The earlier Kings--Sardanapalus.--His Successors.--Pul, or Tiglath Pileser.--Sargon.--Sennacherib.-- Essarhaddon.--The last Assyrian Kings.--Tables of proper Names in the Assyrian Inscriptions.--Antiquity of Nineveh.--Of the Name of Assyria.--Illustrations of Scripture.--State of Judæa and Assyria compared.--Political Condition of the Empire.-- Assyrian Colonies.--Prosperity of the Country.--Religion.-- Extent of Nineveh.--Assyrian Architecture--Compared with Jewish.--Palace of Kouyunjik restored.--Platform at Nimroud restored.--The Assyrian fortified Inclosures.--Description of Kouyunjik.--Conclusion 491

NINEVEH AND BABYLON.