Daily Courant in London, Middlesex

Alexander and the Euphrates Canal in Babylon Debate

A detailed critical extract discusses Arrian and Quintus Curtius on Alexander the Great and the Euphrates. It argues that Alexander sought to open new canals to control floods, not to alter Babylon’s bed, and questions Cyrus’s Trench role. It weighs antiquarian maps and Prophecy in a cautious historical critique.