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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire Babylonia was a long, narrow country about 40 miles wide at its widest
point
and having an area of about 8,000 square miles. It was bordered on the
north by
Assyria, on the east by Elam, on the south and west by the Arabian
desert, and
on the southeast by the Persian Gulf.
The earliest known inhabitants of Mesopotamia were the Sumerians,
whom the
Bible refers to as the people of the "land of Shinar" (Gen 10:10).
Sargon, from
one of the Sumerian
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