The Chaldean account of Genesis : containing the description of the creation, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom, the times of the Patriarchs, and Nimrod, Babylonian fables, and legends of the gods : from the cuneiform inscriptions (1876)
Smith, George, 1840-1876 · New York : Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 189
ous notices which have come down to us seemto me to point to the great pile of Birs Nimrud,near Babylon, as the site of the tower, this opinionis held by Sir Henry Rawlinson and most otherauthorities of weio^ht. This ruin has been examined 164 FRAGMENTS OF by Sir Henry Rawlinson; details of his… … Tower in Stages, fkom an Assyrian Bas-kelief. platform, each stage being of a different colour.The temple was devoted to the seven planets; theheight of the earthen platform was not ascertained,the first stage, which was an exact square, was272 feet each way, and 26 feet high, the bricksblackened…
