Identifier: antiquitiesofori00reddrich (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Redding, M. W. (Moses Wolcott) Guide to Mount Moriah, Author of
Subjects: Bible Middle East -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Temple Publishing Union
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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BABYLON-ITS MOUNDS OF ETJINS.
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THE KASB^BABYLON. ■ A /? i.-or THE VNIVERSITy V ^ or f<i ^ 273 of Babylon. It is surrounded by wide walls, and adeep ditch, and has four gates. The city being built from the Babylonian bricks,there is not a room where may not be seen bricksstamped with the name of Nebuchadnezzar. The Euphrates at Hillah, in its medium state, is 450feet wide and 7^ feet deep, with a velocity of 2^ milesan hour. It annually overflows its banks ; inundatingthe country for many miles around. The soil is veryfertile, and the air salubrious. EEECH is about 100 miles 8. e. of Babylon. It is nowcalled Irak. The most noted ruins found here arethe immense mounds. El Assayah, and the remains ofcoffins and bricks, scattered over a large district—in-dicating that it was a city of considerable size andimportance. ACCAD is about 70 miles n. w. of Babylon, and is nowknown as Akari, Babel, and a primitive monumentfound here is still called Tel Nimrud, wliich signifiesthe hill of Nimrod. The most remarkable ruin

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