'Summary: Babylon'

'Babylon - the superst urban center of antiquated Mesopotamia, the crown of the farming of Babylon in 19-6 cc. BC, an come onstanding commercial and ethnical center of Asia Minor. Babylon comes from the Akkadian linguistic process Bab-mud - Gate of God. antiquated Babylon arose on the range of the ancient Sumerian urban center Kadingir whose elevate was subsequently transferred to Babylon. The offshoot mention of Babylon comprise in the record of the Akkadian powerfulness Sharkalisharri (23. BCE). At 22. Babylon was conquered and plundered Shulga, pansy of Ur, the Sumerian realm to subjugate every of Mesopotamia. In the nineteenth century. came from the Amorites (a Semitic hoi polloi who came from the south-west), the first king of the first Babylonian dynasty Sumuabum conquered Babylon and made it the capital of the kingdom of Babylon. At the end 8. Babylon was conquered by the Assyrians, and the punishment for disorder in 689 al integrity destroyed by the Assy rian king Sennacherib. 9 years ulterior Assyrians began to rebuild Babylon. great dawn Babylon breaked between the New Babylonian Empire (626-538 BC). Nebuchadnezzar II (604-561 BC) grace Babylon juicy buildings and powerful fortifications. In the year 538, Babylon was taken by troops of the Persian nance Cyrus in 331 they captured black lovage the Great in 312, Babylon was captured by one of the generals of Alexander the Great, Seleucus, who brought more or less of its residents in the close town he founded Seleucia. Co. 2. BC on the internet site of Babylon re principal(prenominal)ed sole(prenominal) ruins.\nFrom 1899 to 1914 on the site of Babylon, systematic excavations were carried out by the German archaeologist Koldewey, govern many monuments Novo-Babylonian kingdom. sagacity by these excavations, Babylon, placed on both sides of the Euphrates and cut channels, in this era took a rectangular area, the chalk up length of the sides that reach 8150 meters. On th e easternmost bank of the Euphrates was the main part of the city to the temple of the divinity Marduk, patron of Babylon, who wore the get wind E-sagila (House of lifting the head), and a large seven-story tower, cal conduct E-temenanki (House of the base of paradise and earth). Was separated from the normality of the city duct royal castle with hanging gardens on artificial terraces, construct by Nebuchadnezzar II. The unit of measurement city was environ by threesome walls, one of which reached 7 m thick, the former(a) - 7.8 m, and the third - 3.3 m One of these walls was ikreplena towers. convoluted system of waterworks allowed to flood the likeness of Babylon. Through the city past the palace held sacred path for religious processions that led to the temple of Marduk. passageway paved with extensive slabs of stone and skirt by walls decorated with images of lions, led done the monumental supply of the fortress, who carried the name of the goddess Ishtar. '