PERSIAN CONQUEST OF BABYLON (512 .BC ) Stories from Herodotus * When Cyrus had overthrown the kingdom of the Lydians, he made war in the next place against the Assyrians. Now the Assyrians have many other great and famous cities, but the greatest and famous of all is BABYLON, for there, when Nineveh was destroyed, was set up the palace of the King. The city of Babylon is built foursquare, and the measure of each side is one hundred and twenty furlongs(an eighth of a mile). Round about the walls there is a ditch, very deep and broad and full of water; and after the ditch there is a wall, of which the breadth is seventy and five feet, and the height three hundred feet. On the top of the wall, at the sides thereof, are built houses of one story, being so much apart that a chariot with four horses may turn in the space. And in the wall there are a hundred gates, of brass all of them, with posts and lintels of the same. The city is divided into two parts, between which flows the river. Now the name of this river is Euphrates, and it comes out of the land of Armenia, and flows into the Red Sea.
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