"رحلات في آشور، ميديا، وبلاد فارس، بما في ذلك رحلة من بغداد مروراً بجبل زاغروس وصولاً إلى حمدان، في أكباتانا القديمة، والبحوث في أصفهان وأطلال برسبوليس، ورحلة منها مروراً بشيراز وشابور وصولاً إلى ساحل البحر. وصف البصرة، بوشهر، البحرين، هرمز، ومسقط، وسرد لحملة ضد قراصنة الخليج العربي، مع رسومات توضيحية لرحلة بحرية لنيرتشوس، والمرور ببحر العرب إلى بومباي. [‎٢‎٧‎٨] (٥٨٢/٣٠٩)

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VISIT TO THE RUINS OF PERSEPOLIS.
Quintus Curtius, however, also says, that Alexander spared the
citadel, and left there a governor with a garrison of 3000
Macedonians.
Diodorus Siculus describes a grand sacrifice which Pencestes,
Satrap of Persepolis, offered to the Gods, among the number of
which he counted Alexander and Philip, and mentions afterwards
the magnificent entertainment which he gave to the whole army
of Eumenes. # The existence of a Satrap here, would therefore
lead to the inference of its continuing to be, even after Alexan
der's wanton destruction of the temple, the seat of a native
governor.
The second book of the Maccabees gives a proof of its being a
considerable place as far down as one hundred and sixty years
after Alexander's time, as it is there said, (chap, ix.) that Antiochus
Epiphanes, King of Syria, formed the design of pillaging the
temple and the city of Persepolis, which must have been supposed,
at least, to have contained sufficient wealth to reward the enter
prise of a monarch already sufficiently rich.f
The existence of the Arabic inscriptions, so long and so care
fully executed, is assumed also as a proof of the city being peopled
even down to that period; as no voyager, it is said, could have
complete, that but for the Araxes, which ran near it, pointing out its site, not a vestige
of it could be found, and that to this time it had never been restored.'— Quint, Curt. lib. v.
c. 6. 7.
* The historian describes the governor as sending almost over all Persia for beasts to be
sacrificed, and abundance of all other provisions necessary for a festival and public solemnity
on the grandest scale.— Biod. Sic. lib. xix. c. 2.
f Antiochus, attempting to rob the Temple of Jupiter, in Elymais, there received a just
overthrow, with the loss of his life, and ruin of his whole army.'— Fragments ofDiod. lib. xxvi.
s. 23 ; 1 Maccabees, c. vi. v. 1—3.
King Antiochus being in want of money, and hearing there were vast treasures of gold
and silver, and other precious jewels, of offerings made in the Temple of Jupiter Belus, in
Elymais, resolved to rifle it. Coming, therefore, into the province of Elymais, and pretending
that the inhabitants of that place had raised a war against him, he robbed the temple, and got
together a great sum of money; but in a short time after, the gods executed vengeance upon
him for his sacrilege.—fV^. lib. xxvi. s. 34.