Travels and Researches in Chaldæa and Susiana: With an Account of Excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, and Shúsh, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 ... |
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Affej Alí Kethír ancient appears Arabs architecture Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Bághdád bank Bedouin Bení Bírs Nimrúd bricks brickwork building Busrah Buwáríyya camp canal centre Chaldæan channel character clay coffin Colonel Williams colour columns cuneiform cuneiform records cylinders desert discovered distance Dizfúl earth edifice encampment Erech Euphrates excavations feet Firenghí fragments frequently Greek Hillah horses Husséyn inches inscriptions journey Kárún Kerbella Kerkhah Khán king labours length Lúrs Mádán marshes Mesopotamia miles Mohammerah mounds Múgeyer Muntefik Nabonidus Nebuchadnezzar Niffar Nineveh original ornamented Ovannes palace Parthian party Pasha Persepolis Persian plain Plan platform remarkable river round Royal Asiatic Society rude ruins Sassanian sculptures Shat-el-Káhr Sheikh shew Shúsh Shushan Shúster side Sinkara Sir Henry Rawlinson south-east spear stream summit surface Susa Susiana tablets Tellág temple tent thick Tigris tion tomb trench tribe Turkish Tuweyba unbaked vases walls Warka whole workmen Wuswas Xerxes