Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 73
own of Babylon. At the same time it happens, by a strangeseries of chances, that of all the great cities of the past Babylonis the least known and the most closely wrapped in mystery.The descriptive passages of ancient writers are full of gaps andexaggerations, while as for the monuments… … Fig. 22.—Town besieged by Sennacherib, lleiglit 86 inches. British Museum.■ Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier. to whom they owed their existence, there are no ruins in theworld from which so little of the real thoughts and ideas of Towns axu tiikir DeIExces. 55 their constructors is to be learnt. Not…
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