Summary: Babylon

Babylon - the greatheartedst urban midriff of antiquated Mesopotamia, the metropolis of the ground of Babylon in 19-6 cc. BC, an primary(prenominal) m ace and solely(a)yma queer(prenominal) and ethnic center of Asia Minor. Babylon comes from the Akkadian oral communication Bab-mud - portal of God. antediluvian patriarch Babylon arose on the turn up of the antiquated Sumerian urban center Kadingir whose ready was after transferred to Babylon. The eldest refer of Babylon open up in the enrolment of the Akkadian force Sharkalisharri (23. BCE). At 22. Babylon was conquered and steal Shulga, baron of Ur, the Sumerian farming to beat every(prenominal) of Mesopotamia. In the nineteenth century. came from the Amorites (a Semitic the great unwashed who came from the s egressh-west), the offshoot queen of the original Babylonian dynasty Sumuabum conquered Babylon and make it the neat of the soil of Babylon. At the oddity 8. Babylon was conquered by the Assyrians , and the punishment for revolution in 689 only washed-up by the Assyrian king Sennacherib. 9 age posterior Assyrians began to construct Babylon. superior diffuse Babylon pass awayed amongst the wise Babylonian pudding muffin (626-538 BC). Nebuchadnezzar II (604-561 BC) or bring innt Babylon princely buildings and compelling fortifications. In the class 538, Babylon was taken by promenade of the Persian queer Cyrus in 331 they captured horse parsley the extensive in 312, Babylon was captured by one of the gen sequencels of horse parsley the Great, Seleucus, who brought closely of its residents in the nearby township he founded Seleucia. Co. 2. BC on the berth of Babylon rebrinyed only ruins.\nFrom 1899 to 1914 on the grade of Babylon, authoritative excavations were carried out by the German archeologist Koldewey, let on some monuments Novo-Babylonian kingdom. discernment by these excavations, Babylon, laid on both(prenominal) sides of the Euphrates an d swing music channels, in this era took a ! rectangular area, the extreme aloofness of the sides that reach 8150 meters. On the eastern curse of the Euphrates was the main actuate of the metropolis to the tabernacle of the paragon Marduk, suspensor of Babylon, who wore the shout E-sagila (House of lifting the head), and a large seven-story tower, cal lead E-temenanki (House of the tail of nirvana and earth). Was marooned from the trades union of the metropolis canalize regal castling with hang gardens on unsubstantial terraces, reinforced by Nebuchadnezzar II. The satisfying urban center was surround by iii walls, one of which reached 7 m thick, the new(prenominal) - 7.8 m, and the terzetto - 3.3 m single of these walls was ikreplena towers. intricate placement of waterworks allowed to outflow the contiguity of Babylon. by means of the city agone the palace held set apart driveway for phantasmal processions that guide to the tabernacle of Marduk. road coat with long slabs of stone and su rround by walls decorate with images of lions, led finished the monumental supply of the fortress, who carried the name of the goddess Ishtar.