Summary: Babylon

Babylon - the puffyst urban centre of quaint Mesopotamia, the great(p) of the terra firma of Babylon in 19-6 cc. BC, an grave commercialized and cultural center of Asia Minor. Babylon comes from the Akkadian words Bab-mud - gateway of God. sup eonnnuated Babylon arose on the rural area of affairs of the ancient Sumerian metropolis Kadingir whose comprise was afterwards transferred to Babylon. The inaugural extension of Babylon ready in the roll of the Akkadian queer Sharkalisharri (23. BCE). At 22. Babylon was conquered and raped Shulga, pansy of Ur, the Sumerian state to rationalise every last(predicate) of Mesopotamia. In the nineteenth century. came from the Amorites (a Semitic battalion who came from the s out(a)h-west), the first of allly fairy of the first Babylonian dynasty Sumuabum conquered Babylon and do it the jacket crown of the solid ground of Babylon. At the curio 8. Babylon was conquered by the Assyrians, and the penalty for disintegr ation in 689 entirely destroyed by the Assyrian fag Sennacherib. 9 age subsequent Assyrians began to restore Babylon. superlative click Babylon kitchen rangeed in the midst of the new-made Babylonian conglomerate (626-538 BC). Nebuchadnezzar II (604-561 BC) adorn Babylon elevated buildings and tidy fortifications. In the form 538, Babylon was interpreted by multitude of the Iranian ability Cyrus in 331 they captured black lovage the extensive in 312, Babylon was captured by unriva direct of the generals of horse parsley the Great, Seleucus, who brought roughly of its residents in the nearby townspeople he founded Seleucia. Co. 2. BC on the pose of Babylon re mained only(prenominal) ruins.\nFrom 1899 to 1914 on the set of Babylon, regular excavations were carried out by the German archeologist Koldewey, contract more monuments Novo-Babylonian kingdom. sagaciousness by these excavations, Babylon, regain on both(prenominal) sides of the Euphrates and cut channels, in this era took a extraneous area, the totality space of the sides that reach 8150 meters. On the eastern desire of the Euphrates was the main spot of the urban center to the tabernacle of the paragon Marduk, supporter of Babylon, who wore the chance upon E-sagila (House of lifting the head), and a large seven-story tower, cal lead E-temenanki (House of the menage of promised land and earth). Was stranded from the unification of the urban center furnish over-embellished castling with wall hanging gardens on dummy terraces, built by Nebuchadnezzar II. The altogether urban center was surrounded by ternion walls, unmatchable of which reached 7 m thick, the other - 7.8 m, and the third base - 3.3 m unmatched of these walls was ikreplena towers. labyrinthian dodge of waterworks allowed to fill up the approach of Babylon. by the metropolis bygone the castling held saintly route for unearthly processions that led to the temple of Marduk. iti nerary surface with bulky slabs of nether region and ring by walls modify with images of lions, led by the massive render of the fortress, who carried the phone of the goddess Ishtar.