Images (p. 1581)

Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Processional Street, Babylon

Reign of King Nebuchadnezzar II, neo-Babylonian era, 605–562 BCE. Ancient Babylon (modern Babel governorate), Iraq.

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Ziggurat and Temple of God Nabu, Borsippa

The temple to Nabu at Borsippa was destroyed in 484 BCE during the suppression of a revolt against the Achaemenid king Xerxes. Modern Biris Namrud, Babil Governorate, Iraq.

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The Tongue Tower, Temple of Nabu, Borsippa

The ziggurat, the "Tongue Tower," today one of the most vividly identifiable surviving ziggurats, is identified in the later Talmudic and Arabic culture with the Tower of Babel. However, modern scholarship concludes that the Sumero-Akkadian...

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A Stamped Mud Brick, Borsippa

Stamped mud brick from the temple and ziggurat of God Nabu. Borsippa, Mesopotamia, Iraq.

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Assyrian Military Campaign in Southern Mesopotamia

The Assyrian king in a chariot watches as prisoners are brought in and heads and booty are piled-up in a palm grove. Neo-Assyrian era, 640-620 BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. From Nineveh, south-west palace, court XIX, panels 10-12. (The British...