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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
3: ...e both supposedly built by [[Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon|Nebuchadnezzar II]] around [[600 BC]] (present-da...
5: ...nce gathered at the excavation of the palace at [[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does not completely subst...
8: ...ry of the Ancients program The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. -->
10: |[[Image:Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon.gif|right|thumb|300px|Hanging Garden, Assyrian in...
13: ... on the roofs and terraces of the royal palace in Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar II, the Chaldean king, is suppose... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
4: ...ch means Confusion. It was the capital city of [[Babylonia]] in [[Mesopotamia]] (in contemporary [[Iraq]],...
8: ...his time onward it continued to be the capital of Babylonia.
10: ...ilt to contain the river’s seasonal floods. Babylon gradually grew in extent and grandeur, but in pro...
14: [[Image:Babylon relief.jpg|right|thumb|Detail of the Ishtar Gate]...
16: ...s residence during part of the year. On his death Babylonia was left to his elder son [[Shamash-shum-ukin]]...
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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
3: ...e both supposedly built by [[Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon|Nebuchadnezzar II]] around [[600 BC]] (present-da...
5: ...nce gathered at the excavation of the palace at [[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does not completely subst...
8: ...ry of the Ancients program The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. -->
10: |[[Image:Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon.gif|right|thumb|300px|Hanging Garden, Assyrian in...
13: ... on the roofs and terraces of the royal palace in Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar II, the Chaldean king, is suppose... - Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
2: ...vers, in modern [[Iraq]] and [[Syria]]. More commonly, the term includes these river plains in totalit...
6: ...g the [[Sumer|Sumerians]], [[Akkad|Akkadians]], [[Babylonia]]ns, [[Assyria|Assyrians]] and the [[Persian Em...
28: ** [[Babylon]] - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
8: ...t his grave was in the face of a rock, and could only be reached by means of an apparatus of ropes. Ct...
18: ...onvenient, and the real capitals were [[Susa]], [[Babylon]] and [[Ecbatana]]. This accounts for the fact th...
37: ...ersian tradition at a very remote period knew of only three architectural wonders in that region, whic... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...s known as [[Venus figurines]] have been found mainly in central [[Europe]]. The [[Venus of Willendor...
6: ... stones were used for high quality sculpture and inlays. [[Clay]] was used for pottery and terra cott...
8: ...mong them are a wooden harp with gold and mosaic inlay with a black-bearded golden bull's head.
10: == Sculpure in Babylonian times ==
11: The history of the Babylonian period is considered to begin with the reign o... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
28: ...50|AD 150]], built near the settlement known as [[Babylon-in-Egypt]], which lay close to an ancient Egyptia...
62: ...ant that the [[Egyptian Museum]] in Cairo is the only place in the world that many items can be seen.
72: A second mainline station is located some 10 km south, at Giza.
80: The Cairo Metro is Africa's only fully-fledged [[Metro|metro system]]. Two lines ... - Ptolemy I of Egypt (7434 bytes)
7: ...stigated the resettlement of the empire made at [[Babylon]]. He was now appointed [[satrap]] of [[Egypt]] ...
13: ... Ptolemy and [[Seleucus]], the fugitive satrap of Babylonia, invaded Palestine and defeated [[Demetrius I o... - Earth (30908 bytes)
7: ...olar system]]'s [[terrestrial planet]]s, and the only planetary body that [[modern science]] confirms ...
14: ...Earth (the summit of [[Mount Everest]], which is only 8,850 m) and the lowest (the bottom of the [[Mar...
55: ...he heat flow from the interior to the surface is only 1/20,000 as great as the energy received from th...
68: ...Since the average density of surface material is only around 3000 kg/m<sup>3</sup>, we must conclude t...
80: ...geodyn/poster2.html]. Thus, the upper mantle can only flow very slowly. - Luxor (8772 bytes)
13: Rising to political power only in the middle of the second millennium before Ch...
16: A broad array of visitors came here: the [[Babylonia]]ns, the [[Mitanni]], the [[Hittite]]s of [[Ana...
18: ... past and a legendary name of radiation that only Babylon could claim to match. [[Wenamun]], the priest of ...
20: ...the invaders; [[Assurbanipal]] was the first and only to attack and destroy Thebes. Doing so, he acted... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...]-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the territory of the present [[Greece|Greek s...
15: ...ges|dark age]]" from which no primary texts, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive. Secondar...
50: ...Athens enrolled all the island states and some mainland allies into an alliance, called the [[Delian L...
97: ...n, but many idealists from the Greek cities also enlisted. But while Alexander was campaigning in Thra...
107: ...reluctantly turned back, and died of a fever in [[Babylon]] in [[323 BC|323 BC]]. - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ..., [[356 BC]]–[[June 10]], [[323 BC]]), commonly known in the West as '''Alexander the Great''' o...
23: ...he coast held no major ports, so Alexander moved inland. At Pisidian [[Termessus]] Alexander humbled b...
27: ...batana]] (modern Hamadan), Alexander marched to [[Babylon]].
29: ...ign (although he allowed those that wished to re-enlist as mercenaries in his imperial army). His thre...
49: ...e Cossaens to assuage his grief. On his return to Babylon, he fell ill and died. - Antigonus I Monophthalmus (4328 bytes)
9: ...tle of Gaza]] by Ptolemy in [[312 BC]] and lost [[Babylonia]]. - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
9: ...im with visits to the sages of [[Egypt]] and of [[Babylon]] before going west; but such visits feature ster...
23: ...thematikoi'' held that the ''akousmatikoi'' knew only the outer form of the doctrine, but they themsel...
31: ...ophical and mathematical training. Evidence certainly suggests that the Egyptians had advanced further...
39: ...e oath of the Pythagorean Brotherhood [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_oath.html].
52: ''Only a few relevant source texts deal with Pythagoras... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
535: ...f tunnels]]: [[List of tunnels in the Netherlands|NL]], [[Tunnels in New Zealand|NZ]], [[Tunnels in th...
601: *[[List of NLP topics]]
631: **[[List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names]]
678: **[[List of words commonly mispronounced]]
1196: **[[List of Babylon 5 episodes]] - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
11: ...ogists to suspect a precursor civilization to the Babylonian.
21: ...ee official languages of the empire: Old Persian, Babylonian, and Elamite. The Behistun inscription was to ...
25: By [[1851]], Hincks and Rawlinson could read 200 Babylonian signs. They were soon joined by two other deci...
35: ...the script's polyvalence, transliteration is not only lossless, but may actually contain more informat... - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...adian]], which also comprises [[Akkadian language|Babylonian]] and [[Akkadian language|Assyrian]], and [[Ar...
16: ...an language|Akkadian]]-speaking [[Nineveh]] and [[Babylon]].
36: ...al Sumerian-Akkadian lexical tablets from the Old Babylonian period, which have greatly helped our knowledg... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
3: ...uring the daytime, making it one of only two heavenly bodies that can be seen both day and night (the ...
5: Venus was known to ancient [[Babylon]]ians around [[1600s BC|1600 BC]], and to the [[M...
7: The adjective ''Venusian'' is commonly used for Venus, but it is etymologically incorre...
14: ...nds in the upper atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat.
16: ...ght back into space. This prevents most of the sunlight from ever heating the surface. Venus's [[Bol... - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
15: ...w, on the evening before the [[Passover|Feast of Unleavened Bread]] (which is called the [[Passover]])...
17: ... figure of the early Christian community, second only to Paul. Peter takes the lead in selecting a rep...
23: ...hat he lived in [[Antioch]] for a while, for not only did Paul confront him there ([[Galatians]] 2:11f...
48: ... and so does my son, Mark.''" (1 Peter 5:13), but Babylon has sometimes been taken figuratively to mean Rom...
57: ...ts author was a close associate of Peter who not only knew his opinions well, but felt comfortable spe... - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
10: ...bsorbed matter is excreted in the [[feces]]. But only a minimal amount of digestive juice is eliminate...
14: ...ate and the post-digestion state. The effect may only be discernible after an extended period of time ...
24: ===Antiquity through Enlightenment===
27: ...el and his friends were captured by the king of [[Babylon]] during an invasion of Israel. Selected as court...
35: ... [[François Magendie]] discovers that dogs fed only [[carbohydrates]] and [[fat]] lost their body [[... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
3: ...a]] down to [[Ugarit]], and Mesopotamia down to [[Babylon]], lasted from about 1680 BC to 1200 BC, with an ...
7: ...a]]'s return from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonian captivity]]; see [[Hittites in the Bible]]. Th...
14: ...ocated in the same general region as the Assyrian/Babylonian "land of Hatti", were written in standard Akka...
37: ... written in the [[17th century BC]] but survived only as copies made in the [[14th century BC|14th]] a...
43: ...ili, reaching down to Mesopotamia and threatening Babylonia itself. This lengthy campaign, however, straine... - Trajan (7787 bytes)
3: ...Emperors|Roman Emperor]] ([[98]] - [[117]]), commonly called '''Trajan''', was the second of the so-ca...
20: ...ing Pliny to leave them alone unless they were openly practicing the religion. He built several new bu...
24: ...south into Parthia itself, taking the cities of [[Babylon]], [[Seleucia]] and finally the capital of [[Ctes...
34: ... further embellishment of his legend: it was commonly said in medieval times that [[Pope Gregory I]], ...
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