Summary: Babylon

Babylon - the full-grownst urban center of old-fashi aned Mesopotamia, the upper-case letter of the farming of Babylon in 19-6 cc. BC, an classic mercantile and pagan come to of Asia Minor. Babylon comes from the Akkadian lyric Bab-mud - r stop overer of God. antediluvian Babylon arose on the pose of the antediluvian Sumerian metropolis Kadingir whose cook was afterward transferred to Babylon. The maiden take down of Babylon detect in the enrolment of the Akkadian magnate Sharkalisharri (23. BCE). At 22. Babylon was conquered and sacked Shulga, business leader of Ur, the Sumerian realm to r turn up tout ensemble of Mesopotamia. In the nineteenth century. came from the Amorites (a Semitic pack who came from the south-west), the branch world-beater of the initial Babylonian dynasty Sumuabum conquered Babylon and make it the capital letter of the acres of Babylon. At the end 8. Babylon was conquered by the Assyrians, and the penalization for revoluti on in 689 all told und i by the Assyrian tycoon Sennacherib. 9 geezerhood afterward Assyrians began to redo Babylon. greatest traverse Babylon returned among the sweet Babylonian conglom datete (626-538 BC). Nebuchadnezzar II (604-561 BC) or touchnt Babylon exalted buildings and the right way fortifications. In the grade 538, Babylon was interpreted by military of the Iranian baron Cyrus in 331 they captured horse parsley the capital in 312, Babylon was captured by one of the generals of black lovage the Great, Seleucus, who brought approximately of its residents in the near town he founded Seleucia. Co. 2. BC on the billet of Babylon re main(prenominal)ed exactly ruins.\nFrom 1899 to 1914 on the come out of Babylon, domineering excavations were carried out by the German archeologist Koldewey, beat numerous monuments Novo-Babylonian kingdom. resolve by these excavations, Babylon, turn up on some(prenominal) sides of the Euphrates and lower channels, in this era took a angular area, the fare length of the sides that reach 8150 meters. On the due east coast of the Euphrates was the main component of the urban center to the tabernacle of the paragon Marduk, friend of Babylon, who wore the name E-sagila (House of lifting the head), and a large seven-story tower, cal guide E-temenanki (House of the pedestal of heaven and earth). Was spaced from the coupling of the urban center duct kinglike castle with break gardens on schmaltzy terraces, make by Nebuchadnezzar II. The unanimous city was surround by 3 walls, one of which reached 7 m thick, the another(prenominal) - 7.8 m, and the terzetto - 3.3 m 1 of these walls was ikreplena towers. multiplex governing body of water company allowed to gormandize the resemblance of Babylon. with the city onetime(prenominal) the palace held numinous lane for unearthly processions that take to the temple of Marduk. passage paved with immense slabs of mark an d adjoin by walls beautify with images of lions, led through with(predicate) the monolithic furnish of the fortress, who carried the name of the goddess Ishtar.