Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . sed, which can very easily be traced,showing that the city had been invaded,and the palace destroyed. Instead ofcleaning away the debris they simply be-gan the new foundation on the ruins ofthe old, perhaps two or three suchfoundations, one upon the other, may beseen in the walls. In one of the lower walls built byNabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnez-zar, is a splendidly preserved arch, dat-ing back more than twenty-five hundredyears ago. The Romans have somecredit relative to the use of the arch,but in this case the was in usewhen Roman history was a lit
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . sed, which can very easily be traced,showing that the city had been invaded,and the palace destroyed. Instead ofcleaning away the debris they simply be-gan the new foundation on the ruins ofthe old, perhaps two or three suchfoundations, one upon the other, may beseen in the walls. In one of the lower walls built byNabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnez-zar, is a splendidly preserved arch, dat-ing back more than twenty-five hundredyears ago. The Romans have somecredit relative to the use of the arch,but in this case the was in usewhen Roman history was a little misty. As to the security of the palace, thewalls were within a fraction of thirty-six feet thick, and constructed of brickthirteen inches square, three inchesthick, and thirty-three of these brick ly-ing side by side in the palace walls, withasphaltum mortar. There are slime pitsnot so far from Babylon, where the ma-terial was brought from to make theasphalt. Each one of the bricks bearsthe stamp of Nebuchadnezzar, in cunei-. Tablet in Babylon. form inscription or characters, put inwhile the brick was in the plastic secured one of these bricks andbrought it home with me, this being myfirst experience at smuggling. The Turk-ish government has forbidden any an-tiquities to be taken oat of the country,and to get a brick past the Turkish cus-tomhouse officials partook largely of thenature of smuggling. The brick weighsthirty pounds, and I felt after carryingit seventeen thousand miles, that I hadreally earned a brick. Dr. Koldewey be-lieves that the Babylonians had a defi-nite knowledge of the metric system, asall their measurements go to indicate,three of these bricks, side by side, wouldmeasure very near a meter. In one of the lower rooms of the pal-ace with the door almost walled up,there was found a large collection of an-tiquities. It would seem that Nebuchad-nezzar had a museum, for many of the
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