We have, in short, no good reason to believe that Babylon, in any form or sense whatever, covered at any time this large area.
[12] So Baumstark, art.

Babylon in Pauly-Wissowa, ii.

2696.
On the other hand, the special ruins of Babil and Kasr and adjacent mounds seem to preserve both the name and the actual remains of Babylon (fig.

1).

Here, on the left bank of the Euphrates, are vast city-walls, once five or six miles long.[13] They may be described roughly as enclosing half of a square bisected diagonally by the river, much as Herodotus writes; there is good reason to think that they had some smaller counterpart on the right bank, as yet scantily explored.