Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . CHAPTER IX. THE FIRST CITIES BUILT—THEIR KISE, FALL, AND RUINSAS NOW SEEN.* Bahylon, its vast extent—its fall—its remarkdblfruins—Erech—Accad— Calneh—Nineveh^ a sketchof its history—Its wonderful ruins and inscriptions — Damascus — Shechem — Gaza— Bethel—•Bethlehem—Sidon—Jericho. BABYLOK ITS VAST EXTENT ITS FALL ITS KEMABKABLE EUINS
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . CHAPTER IX. THE FIRST CITIES BUILT—THEIR KISE, FALL, AND RUINSAS NOW SEEN.* Bahylon, its vast extent—its fall—its remarkdblfruins—Erech—Accad— Calneh—Nineveh^ a sketchof its history—Its wonderful ruins and inscriptions — Damascus — Shechem — Gaza— Bethel—•Bethlehem—Sidon—Jericho. BABYLOK ITS VAST EXTENT ITS FALL ITS KEMABKABLE EUINS. Babel, or Babylon, is the first in order of the fourcities built or occupied by Nimrod. It is 300 milesN. \v, of the Persian Gulf, 200 above the junctionof the river Euphrates with the Tigris, and 530 milesE. N. E. of Jerusalem. Herodotus, who visited Baby-lon after its conquest by Cyrus, is considered thebest authority as to a description of the city, as hisaccount is corroborated by the testimony and re-searches of all subsequent writers, and by the explo-rations and excavations of the present age. He describes the city as a quadrangle of 15 mileson each side, surrounded, first, by a deep, wide moat,filled with water; and
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