Travels in Chaldæa, Including a Journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, Performed on Foot in 1827. With Observations on the Sites and Remains of Babel, Seleucia, and Ctesiphon |
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AHWAZ ancient antiquity appears Appendix Arabia Arabs Arrian Babel Babylon Babylonian Bagdad Basrah beautiful Belus Berosus Birs Nemroud bitumen boat breadth bricks brickwork bridge building built burnt called camel canal cement chap character composed crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon desert Diodorus Diodorus Siculus distance district earth east eastern bank edifices Euphrates extends face feet fifty fragments furlongs gates ground half heap height Herodotus Hillah Hussein Pasha inhabitants inscriptions Kasr Kesra khaun king layers mass Mesopotamia miles MODERN BUSSORAH mosque mounds mountains Mujellibah natives nearly Nimrod Nineveh Note palace Persian Persian Empire plain qu'il reeds remains remarkable Rich river road RUINS OF AHWAZ Sabean says Seleucia Seleucus Nicator Selman Semiramis Sheikh side situated spot square stone Strabo stream summit Susiana Tamarix temple of Belus thick Tigris tion tomb town traced traveller vases vestiges village wall western