Excerpt from Fresh Light From the Ancient Monuments: A Sketch of the Most Striking Confirmations of the Bible From Recent Discoveries in Egypt, Palestine, Assyria, Babylonia, Asia Minor The third name, which was much longer than the other two, differed from the second chiefly at the begin ning, the latter part Of it resembling the name of Xerxes. Clearly, therefore, it could be nothing else than Arta xerxes, and that it actually was so, was rendered certain by the fact that the second character composing it was that which had the value of r. 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.