Jun 1916
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Nature, Volume 97, Issue 2434, pp. 340 (1916).
Physics
Scientific paper
THE discovery of the Sacred Way, or Procession Street, of Babylon is one of the results of excavations carried out by Dr. Robert Koldewey on the site of this ancient city. This Sacred Street extended approximately north and south through Babylon so far as the south-east corner of a level quadrangular enclosure wherein was situated the famous Tower of Babylon. Here the Sacred Way turned sharply westward towards the Euphrates, where the stone piers of the bridge which spanned the river have been found. All the temples of Babylon, including those of the goddess Ishtar and of Marduk, the lord of Babylon, have been found in the vicinity of this Sacred Way on either side. The street was extended slightly west of north and east of south, and the temples were similarly oriented, the southward aspect being approximately S.S.E. Apparently no attempt has been made to ascertain the azimuth of any of the temples, or of the Procession Street. Prof. Leonard W. King, in his recently published ``History of Babylon'', states that ``Nebuchadnezzar boasts that he paved the street of Babylon for the procession of the great lord Marduk, to whom he prays for eternal life'' (p. 59).
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