No towers of the outer wall have been so far excavated. The mud wall had on either face towers 8.37 meters large and at 52.50 meters intervals from axis to axis. The opposite embankment has not been found. At the foot of the baked brick wall began the moat wall also in burnt bricks and 3.30 meters thick. The walls of Herodotus, 50 royal cubits thick, measured 27.84 meters, the length of a royal cubit being about 0.5568. The massive rampart measured 26.80 meters. Their structure from the inside of the city toward the outside included a 7 meters thick raw brick wall, a 12 meters vacant space, a 7.80 meters thick baked brick wall, the vacant space between the walls being filled with mud. Only a small portion of the walls has been so far excavated. walls had each a length of four kilometers, of which a course of four to five kilometers is still visible. The distance from Babil to the south along the river is about four kilometers from the river to the eastern angle of the big walls, three kilometers. The big walls were farther East from this inner fortified citadel, and enclosed the rest of the city. The canal Arahtu, and later the Euphrates surrounded Kasr on the East, as well as on the West and cut it from Babil and Amran. Amran marks the site of Esagila, the tower of Babel and the temple of Marduk. Kasr covers the older palace of the same king and of his father, and also a temple of the goddess Ninmah. The three great ruins of Babylon on the East bank of the Euphrates are from North to South, Babil, Kasr and Amran. The city known to Herodotus and excavated by the Germans, dates from the Neo Babylonian kings since Nabopolassar. In this way was Babylon surrounded by a rampart.” This wall had 100 gates of massive bronze, as were also the lintels and the jambs. On the top and along the borders of the wall have been built towers, with one single floor, facing one another, and with enough space left between them, as is necessary to a four horses chariot to turn round.
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The royal cubit is three fingers larger than the average. Next is found a wall of 50 royal cubits thick and 200 high.
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A large and deep moat full of water runs all around.
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It is so magnificent that we know no other city that may compare with it.
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“This city-Babylon-situated in a large plain, forms a square of 120 stadion on each side, which amounts to 480 stadion for the whole circuit. The text here first translated strangely confirms the results of the German survey and excavations at Babylon from 1899 to 1912 and gives practically the same length of 8 kilometers for the twin walls toward the East, Imgur-Enlil and Nimitta-Enlil.īut we must first listen to the father of all chroniclers, Herodotus. THE extension of the walls of the great city of Babylon after King Nabuchadnezzar is a vexed question, which may derive some light from an inscription of Nabonidus on a clay barrel shaped cylinder entered in the Museum collections before 1900.