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WHO among the readers of ancient history has not pictured to himself great Babylon, with its long straight streets at right angles, its quays along the banks of the Euphrates, its royal palaces, its double walls, and last, not least, its towers in stages, dedicated to the various gods? The picture of grandeur is one of which we can form an estimate only, but it must have been magnificent beyond what was customary in those days, for had not the great Nebuchadnezzar built it? He describes at great length what he had done for the city, for its walls, for its streets, its temples, its towers, and its palaces.
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The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues1. Nature 45, 210–211 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045210b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/045210b0