Narrative of a Journey to the Site of Babylon in 1811

Ancient Babylon antiquity appears Arabs Babylonian Bagdad banks Beauchamp Birs Nemroud bitumen breadth bridge building built burnt bricks Bushire Bussora called canal caravanserai cement centre CLAUDIUS JAMES RICH course covered Ctesias cuneiform curious Cyrus Darius Hystaspes desert Diodorus earth east eastern Eliauts Euphrates face farsakhs feet fragments gardens gate grand mound half-past heaps height Herodotus Hillah hills inscriptions Jeremiah Kasr Kauzeroon Khan Kilmun layers Major Rennell mass Memoir mentioned Mesjid miles Mohawill mortar Mujelibè Niebuhr night Nineveh observed palace Pasha pass passage Persepolis Persian plain probably ravine reeds remarkable Rich Rich page Rich's road round rubbish ruins of Babylon Sassanian says seen Semiramis Shirauz side species spot stone Strabo summit supposed Temple of Belus thick Tigris tion tomb Tower of Belus town traces traveller unburnt valley vestiges village walls whole wind