They do not fit ill with the words of Herodotus.

We can detect in them the semblance not indeed of one square but of two unequal half-squares, divided by the river; we can trace at least one great street parallel to the river and others which run at right angles to it towards the river.

If the brick defences along the water-side have vanished, that may be due to their less substantial character and to the many changes of the river itself.

To the student of Babylonian topography, the account of Herodotus is of very little worth.

But it is as good as most modern travellers could compile, if they were let loose in a vast area of buildings, without plans, without instruments, and without any notion that a scientific description was expected of them.
The remains show also--and this is more to our purpose--the idea of the sacred processional avenue which recurs in fifth-century Greece--and is indeed beloved of architects in the most modern times.
Here is a germ of town-planning.