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Category : Babylon (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Author: Thomas Maurice
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Category : Babylon (Extinct city)
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Pages : 266
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Author: Thomas Maurice
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Category : Babylon (Extinct city)
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Pages : 288
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Author: Thomas Maurice
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Category : Assyria
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Pages : 268
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Author: Thomas Maurice
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Category : Astronomy
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Pages : 198
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Author: Thomas Maurice
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230205700
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 edition. Excerpt: ...of the magnificent edifices of Babylon, as described by classical authors, and whether in all their variety of construction any remains of the arch is to be found. As his remarks are very curious, and the "Munimenta" rather a costly work, I shall give the passage in his own words, only a little abridged in respect to the profusion of Greek learning displayed in it. "Concerning its great bridge over the Euphrates, Herodotus expressly tells us, that it was built first of stones bound together with lead and iron; upon which were laid oAa Tetjd.yma, squared beams. It must, therefore, plainly have consisted merely of a certain number of stone piers, with timbers placed from pier to pier. "And that there were no arches, in the gates of its walls, is most decidedly apparent, from the particular words Herodotus makes use of, and from the precision of his account. "For he says, that in the compass of its walls there were an hundred gates, all of brass, even their posts, and their upper lintels of the same metal; where the peculiar word uVf'pflupa, upper lintels, excludes utterly every idea of an arch. "Diodorus, indeed, besides the bridge, describes a subterraneous covered passage under the Euphrates, by means of which the Queen could pass from the old palace to the new palace, a distance that, according to Strabo's account, cannot have been less than the extent of a stadium; and this passage has been supposed to have been arched. "But when we come to examine the words of Diodorus with more minute precision, we may perceive, that, although it might be deemed to have been indeed vaulted, yet that no real arch was introduced in the construction; and that the closing of the vaulting above was merely by a...
Author: Claudius James Rich
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Category : Babylon (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: Claudius James Rich
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Category : Babylon
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Pages : 494
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Author: Claudius James Rich
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781376368444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Author: Thomas Maurice
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Author: Claudius James Rich
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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