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- Babylon (9716 bytes)
4: ...k form of ''[[Babel]],'' which is derived in turn from the [[Semitic]] form ''bab-Illu'', meaning "The...
8: ...l of [[Hammurabi]]'s empire ([[18th century BC]]) From this time onward it continued to be the capital...
43: ...ical knowledge of Babylon's topography is derived from the classical writers, the inscriptions of Nebu...
45: ...bylon Ruins Marines.jpg|thumb|200px|US Marines in front of the rebuilt ruins of Babylon (2003)]]
49: We learn from [[Herodotus]] and [[Ctesias]] that the city was... - Ur (11926 bytes)
3: ...erian mythology]], and has two stages constructed from brick: in the lower stage the bricks are joined...
9: ...iving. Ur by this time was considered sacred to [[Nanna]], the [[moon]] [[god]] in [[Sumerian mythology]]...
15: ...roved through [[irrigation]]. His code of laws (a fragment was identified in [[Istanbul]] in [[1952]])...
17: ... this event. Later [[Babylon]] captured the city. Nanna was known to the Babylonians as ''Sin''. The Baby...
19: ...the ziggurat. However the city started to decline from around [[550 BC]] and was no longer inhabited a... - Chaldean mythology (2527 bytes)
4: ...ly created humans as servants for themselves, but freed them when they became too much to handle.
6: ...Greek]] parallels as well; for example, [[Ishtar|Inanna]]'s descent into the underworld strikingly recall...
11: ...na]]. Sin and [[Ningal]] gave birth to [[Ishtar|Inanna]] (goddess of love and war) and to [[Utu]]/[[Sham...
18: ...est known writings on the Sumerian cosmology stem from [[Enheduanna]]. - Nineveh (10193 bytes)
3: ...aving an average breadth of 20 km (10 mi) or more from the river back toward the eastern hills. This w...
5: ...ting the East and the West, wealth flowed into it from many sources, so that it became one of the grea...
8: ...ed new palaces, temples to [[Sin]], [[Nergal]], [[Nanna]], [[Shamash]], Ishtar, and [[Nabu]] of [[Borsipp...
10: ...s. An elaborate system of 18 canals brought water from the hills to Nineveh, and several sections of a...
16: tyranny and violence, from the Caucasus and the Caspian to the
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