out from Persia, I conquered Egypt. I ordered this canal dug from the river called the Nile that flows in Egypt, to the sea that begins in Persia. When the
Memorial Museum. Retrieved 27 September 2012. Robert L. Canfield, Turko–Persia in Historical Perspective p. 212 – ="As Turkistanis they joined the so-called
Mithras, the creator and father of all, a cave in the mountains bordering Persia," an idyllic setting "abounding in flowers and springs of water" (Porphyry