66 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
time of Xerxes (d. 463 B.C.) ; and thus it is demonstrated, that 
the ruins of Nineveh, where the brick was dug up, or at least 
some parts of those ruins, are indeed 160 years posterior to the 
year 626 B. C., to which Layard has referred them, This fact 
was first prov ran tian inscription, containing the name 
the pala m 
(38 B. C.), Nebuchadnezzar overcame Hophra; and so, he 
brought those Egyptian antiquities to he palaces at Nisewi 
This faci has been explained more £70 eee in the German 
translation heone* Ninexeh, Leip. 1855. 
iy, Dock Ghent 
| pak ns en opened, and their 
off, or destroyed, without throwing any light. 
When I happened, therefore, i 
