Narrative of a Journey to the Site of Babylon in 1811

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