ABSTRACT
TH E plan of Babylon is probably well-known to all who are interested in Mesopotamian antiquities, either from Koldewey’s book or from older publications which give some idea of it before the Germans began their work. And those who visited it during the war will well remember the sea of brown brick ruins extending along the banks of the Euphrates from the mosque-crowned hill of ‘Amran Ibn ‘Ali in the south to the great fortress-like mass of Babil in the north. Few will have forgotten the impressive twin towers of the Ishtar Gate as they rise, in the midst of the ruined city, from the depths of the excavation in which Koldewey traced their building downwards till the infiltration of water from the river stopped his work.
