82, 142; Hommel, _Geogr.

des alten Orients_, pp.

290, 331; E.Meyer, _Sitzungsber.
preuss.Akad_.1912, p.1102.I am indebted to Dr.Langdon for references to some of the treatises cited here and below.

I cannot share the unfavourable view which is taken by Messrs.

How and Wells, the latest good editors of Herodotus, of the views of these writers.
[14] Koldewey, _Pflastersteine von Aiburschabu_ (Leipzig, 1901).
Some of the streets of Babylon are much older than 600 B.C., but this point needs to be worked out further.
[Illustration: FIG I.BABYLON] Such are the remains of the city of Babylon, so far as they are known at present.