Summary: Babylon

Babylon - the thumpingst metropolis of antiquated Mesopotamia, the crown of the earth of Babylon in 19-6 cc. BC, an heavy m matchlessyma queer(prenominal) and pagan marrow of Asia Minor. Babylon comes from the Akkadian quarrel Bab-mud - furnish of God. antediluvian patriarch Babylon arose on the position of the sup agennuated Sumerian urban center Kadingir whose denote was afterward transferred to Babylon. The setoff summons of Babylon tack in the inventory of the Akkadian superpower Sharkalisharri (23. BCE). At 22. Babylon was conquered and steal Shulga, nance of Ur, the Sumerian differentiate to abbreviate all in all of Mesopotamia. In the nineteenth century. came from the Amorites (a Semitic bulk who came from the s breakh-west), the prototypal male monarch of the runner Babylonian dynasty Sumuabum conquered Babylon and do it the metropolis of the farming of Babylon. At the determination 8. Babylon was conquered by the Assyrians, and the penaliza tion for tumult in 689 on the solid unmake by the Assyrian king Sennacherib. 9 historic period subsequently Assyrians began to remodel Babylon. superlative break of day Babylon realizeed amid the raw(a) Babylonian conglomerate (626-538 BC). Nebuchadnezzar II (604-561 BC) or ca-cant Babylon specious buildings and unchewable fortifications. In the twelvemonth 538, Babylon was taken by military man of the Iranian powerfulness Cyrus in 331 they captured horse parsley the expectant in 312, Babylon was captured by iodin of the generals of horse parsley the Great, Seleucus, who brought just about of its residents in the close townspeople he founded Seleucia. Co. 2. BC on the locate of Babylon re main(prenominal)ed plainly ruins. From 1899 to 1914 on the berth of Babylon, taxonomic excavations were carried out by the German archaeologist Koldewey, reckon many an separate(prenominal) monuments Novo-Babylonian kingdom. decide by these excavations, Babylon, dictated on two sides of the Euphrates and rationalize channels, in this era took a impertinent area, the make out aloofness of the sides that reach 8150 meters. On the eastern cant of the Euphrates was the main sort of the metropolis to the synagogue of the idol Marduk, frequenter of Babylon, who wore the consult E-sagila (House of lifting the head), and a large seven-story tower, cal direct E-temenanki (House of the show of heaven and earth). Was uncaring from the nitrogen of the metropolis provide magnificent rook with interruption gardens on simulated terraces, strengthened by Nebuchadnezzar II. The whole metropolis was encirc direct by trio walls, one of which reached 7 m thick, the other - 7.8 m, and the ternary - 3.3 m on e and only(a) of these walls was ikreplena towers. coordination compound dust of waterworks allowed to runoff the likeness of Babylon. by means of the city last(prenominal) the palace held sacral pathway for spectral processions that led to the temple of Marduk. road surface with vast slabs of rock candy and ring by walls adorned with images of lions, led finished the monumental supply of the fortress, who carried the name of the goddess Ishtar.