The English Historical Review, 1902, Vol. 17 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The English Historical Review, 1902, Vol. 17That the Shatt al Hai was the old Tigris seems plain from the accounts the Arab geographers give of ancient Wasit. Thus Ibn Haukal says it was situated on the two banks of the Diglath at the present day the city is on one Side of the Shatt and the fort on the other. Idrisi confirms this, while Abulfeda says Wasit is a city separated by the Diglath into two parts.6 Ainsworth unhesitatingly calls the Shatt al Hai the ancient bed of the Tigris and the Old Tigris.' When the river changed its course I do not know, perhaps in the troubled times of the Mongol invasion, when it may have been assisted by human efforts. But it is plain that in order to understand the history of the delta lands Of the two Mesopotamian rivers this divergence of the Tigris is a most important fact. Before it took place there was apparently no serious impediment to the intercourse between Susiana and the delta lands, as there is now. The marsh lands watered by the old courses of the Euphrates and Tigris, and comprising about 680 square miles, were known to the later Babylonians as bit-dakari and to the classical writers as Messene and Characene.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.