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In conclusion, the mounds of Babil and Kasr and others near them seem to represent the Babylon alike of fact and of Herodotus.

It was a smaller city than the Greek historian avers; its length and breadth were nearer four than fourteen miles.

But it had at least one straight, ample, and far-stretching highway which gave space for the ceremonies and the processions, if not for the business or the domestic comforts, of life.

In a sense at least, it was laid out with its streets straight.

Nor was it the only city of such a kind in the Mesopotamian region.