Originally posted by lee_merrill
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Pathetic behavior.
In any case, if you go into the map and zoom around, you can find that the northern portion of the image is labelled with palaces and the Ishtar gate, which corresponds to the northern part of the wall. And the southern wall is labelled, so we do have the full north-south enclosed area in this map. Again, if you'd bothered to do your own research, you'd find that the thing labelled "Tower of Babel" is actually the temple of Marduk, which is more or less centered in the upper map.
From that, you can deduce that the river has shifted course.
You can then use the upper map to confirm that the walls stretched west from the temple of Marduk about the same distance as the full distance between the north and south walls. Given that, you can then confirm that the settled area on the west bank that contains a pharmacy and home improvement store are within what used to be the city walls.
Just as i said.
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