Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century (1903)
Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925, Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935, Hommel, Fritz, 1854-1936, Jensen, P. (Peter), 1861-1936, Steindorff, Georg, 1861-1951 · Philadelphia : A. J. Holman · leaf 47
s. Rich in her editionof her husbands Collected Memoirs, p. 55, footnote ■>. ^ Rogers, in his History of Babylonia and Assyria, vol. i., pp. 89, jv^^.,asserts that Eldred confused Baghdad and Babylon. But this is incorrect,for Eldred says plainly enough : The citie of New Babylon… … DURING 19™ CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 15 mains of the very extended city of Babylon, and the im-posing brick structure of Aqarquf for the Tower ofBabel or of Daniel. For Aqarquf, generally pro-nounced Agarguf, and situated about nine to ten miles tothe west of Baghdad, is the one gigantic ruin…
