stown 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. Height 86 inches.Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier. British Museum. to whom they owed their existence, there are no ruins in theworld from which so little of the real thoughts and ideas of Towns and their Defences. 55 their constructors is to be learnt. Not only has…
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