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 . pi i /mi m S found a series of artificial mounds of enormous sizeconsisting chiefly of three great masses of biiildini^^s:the high pile of unbaked brick-work, called by theArabs Babil; the building denominated the Kasr, orpalace; and a lofty mound, upon which stands a modem tomb. The principal ruins are surrounded by lines of ram-pa
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 . pi i /mi m S found a series of artificial mounds of enormous sizeconsisting chiefly of three great masses of biiildini^^s:the high pile of unbaked brick-work, called by theArabs Babil; the building denominated the Kasr, orpalace; and a lofty mound, upon which stands a modem tomb. The principal ruins are surrounded by lines of ram-parts, and an embankment along the river-sideScattered over a large area, on both sides of the Eu-phrates, are a number of notable mounds, nearly allstanding single. The most remarkable of these isthe vast ruin called Birs Nimroud—the Temple ofBelus. This mound is 198 feet high, and has on irssummit a compact mass of brick-work, 37 feet highby 27 broad—the whole being 235 feet in hight. 11is rent into two parts nearly the whole of the waydown, and the base is surrounded by immense pile-,of bricks bearing unmistakable evidence of fire. It is laid out in the form of seven terraces, ar-ranged in the order in which the Chaldeans supposedthe planetary spheres
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