Note 182 — Chapter II
Walter Armstrong translation
Warka, its Ruins and Remains, by W. Kenneth Loftus, p. 9. (In the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, second series, Part I.) According to Sir Henry Rawlinson this introduction of layers of reeds or rushes between the courses of brick continued in all this region at least down to the Parthian epoch. Traces of it are to be found in the walls of Seleucia and Ctesiphon (Rawlinson's Herodotus, vol. i. p. 300 note 1).