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Excerpt from The Ancient Empires of the East The following chapters were written to accompany an edition of the first three books of Herodotos. The discoveries which have been pouring in upon us of late years from all parts of the oriental world have made it possible to test the value of our chief classical authority for the history of the ancient East, and at the same time to give some idea of what that history actually was. So rapid, indeed, has been the progress of research, that not only have the essays attached to Rawlinson's translation of Herodotos already become antiquated, but even François Lenormant's well-known Manual of Ancient History has long since needed to be re-written. The genial author, however, had scarcely begun the task when it was arrested by a premature death. The charming Histoire ancienne des Peuples de l'Orient, by Professor Maspero, has equally been left behind by the advance of science. 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.