Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon, Volume 2 |
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Abulfeda Amran ancient Babylon angle antiquity appears Arabs Babylonian Bagdad bank Beauchamp Benjamin of Tudela Birs Nemroud bitumen Borsippa boundary Boursa breadth built burnt brick bylon called canal castle cement CLAUDIUS JAMES RICH conjecture Ctesias cuneiform curious Darius Hystaspis desert dimensions Diodorus district east eastern ruins elevation embankment Euphrates face feet fragments gate Grotefend ground heaps of rubbish height Herodotus Hilla Hilla road hundred yards inclosed inclosure inscriptions Kasr Kassr Khan kind Koyunjuk layer of reeds leagues Major Rennel mass Memoir miles Mines de l'Orient Mohawil Mousoul Mujelibč nearly Neel Niebuhr Nineveh observations opinion Palace Pasha passage Persia Pietro della Valle probably racter reason remarkable resembling river ruins of Babylon says scription seen side situated species spot stadium stone Strabo summit supposed temple Tigris tion Tower of Belus town traces unburnt village walls western whole writing καὶ بن