Ogden Daily Standard | 1894-02-20 | Page 4 | The Largest Cities of Antiquity

alie of antiquity tho greatest cities of times were babylon and alio former ia said to bavo had au area of to square miles its houses three or four stories high but palaces and gardens occupied enuch of alio vast area eo that the population was not what cheso figures would seeni to indicate in fact it is said by one historian that nine tenths of this area taken up by gardens and orchard alie total population of the city under and ills son evil ie estimated at upward of blomo reached Us greatest size during the fourth century of our era and its population was then about western mail