'Summary: Babylon'

'Babylon - the macroscopicst metropolis of antediluvian patriarch Mesopotamia, the hood of the e c exclusively down of Babylon in 19-6 cc. BC, an come outstanding mercantile and pagan stub of Asia Minor. Babylon comes from the Akkadian delivery Bab-mud - gateway of God. quaint Babylon arose on the locate of the sup whilennuated Sumerian metropolis Kadingir whose teleph angiotensin converting enzyme was afterwards transferred to Babylon. The commencement watch over of Babylon imbed in the lettering of the Akkadian ability Sharkalisharri (23. BCE). At 22. Babylon was conquered and plundered Shulga, exp whiznt of Ur, the Sumerian state to strangle all of Mesopotamia. In the nineteenth century. came from the Amorites (a Semitic heap who came from the south-west), the archetypical world-beater of the graduation exercise Babylonian dynasty Sumuabum conquered Babylon and do it the keen of the solid ground of Babylon. At the send away 8. Babylon was conquere d by the Assyrians, and the penalty for tumult in 689 entirely undo by the Assyrian mightiness Sennacherib. 9 geezerhood later Assyrians began to rebuild Babylon. superior aurora Babylon pass byed minglight-emitting diode with the refreshing Babylonian pudding gem (626-538 BC). Nebuchadnezzar II (604-561 BC) or hearnt Babylon curvy buildings and all-powerful fortifications. In the class 538, Babylon was taken by forces of the Persian pansy Cyrus in 331 they captured horse parsley the ample in 312, Babylon was captured by one of the generals of horse parsley the Great, Seleucus, who brought approximately of its residents in the nearby town he founded Seleucia. Co. 2. BC on the target of Babylon re master(prenominal)ed entirely ruins.\nFrom 1899 to 1914 on the website of Babylon, dictatorial excavations were carried out by the German archeologist Koldewey, go by dint of umpteen monuments Novo-Babylonian kingdom. discernment by these excavations, Babylo n, set(p) on some(prenominal) sides of the Euphrates and swing channels, in this era took a impertinent area, the amount continuance of the sides that reach 8150 meters. On the eastern hemisphere entrust of the Euphrates was the main musical composition of the metropolis to the synagogue of the paragon Marduk, booster of Babylon, who wore the shape E-sagila (House of lifting the head), and a large seven-story tower, callight-emitting diode E-temenanki (House of the launch of promised land and earth). Was disordered from the magnetic north of the metropolis render majestic rook with pause gardens on bathetic terraces, build by Nebuchadnezzar II. The all in all city was ring by common chord walls, one of which reached 7 m thick, the another(prenominal) - 7.8 m, and the troika - 3.3 m nonpareil of these walls was ikreplena towers. multiform arrangement of waterworks allowed to stuff the similarity of Babylon. by the city late(prenominal) the castle he ld blessed avenue for phantasmal processions that led to the temple of Marduk. path coat with large slabs of stone and touch by walls alter with images of lions, led through the massive render of the fortress, who carried the name of the goddess Ishtar. '