Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1878 — Babylon. [ARTICLE]

Babylon.

K correspondent of the Times of India complains of the destruction of the relics of ancient Babylon. A dealer in bricks, he says, is excavating Mount Meyelibeh, near Hillah, and is carrying away great walls which he finds thirty feet below the surface. The brick dealer has discovered a large subterranean apartment, < n each brick of which is the name of an ancient King. He has begun demolishing it. Hillah is built with brick taken from Babylon, and the courtyard of the house where he resides is paved with square bricks bearing the name of Nebuchadnezzar.