Histories

and when he came to the lake, Cyrus dealt with it and with the river just as had the Babylonian queen: drawing off the river by a canal into the lake, which was a marsh, he made the stream sink until its former channel could be forded.

When this happened, the Persians who were posted with this objective made their way into Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, AsiaBabylon by the channel of the Euphrates [47.5,31.83] (river), AsiaEuphrates, which had now sunk to a depth of about the middle of a man's thigh.