Babylon

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Babylon was an ancient Mesopotamian city-state and imperial capital renowned for its monumental architecture, advanced culture, and central role in Near Eastern history and biblical tradition.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city
city-state
former capital
archaeologicalExcavationBy Robert Koldewey
associatedWithMyth Etemenanki ziggurat
surface form: Tower of Babel
associatedWithRuler Hammurabi
Nabonidus
Nabopolassar
Nebuchadnezzar II
capitalOf Neo-Babylonian Empire
surface form: Babylonian Empire

Neo-Babylonian Empire
conqueredBy Alexander the Great
Assyria
surface form: Assyrian Empire

Cyrus the Great
Achaemenid Empire
surface form: Persian Achaemenid Empire

Sennacherib
culturalRegion Babylon self-linksurface differs
surface form: Babylonia
declinePeriod Hellenistic period
excavationStartYear 1899
flourishedDuring Neo-Babylonian Empire
surface form: Neo-Babylonian period

reign of Hammurabi
foundedBy Amorites
hasLanguage Akkadian
Sumerian (scholarly use)
hasTemple Esagila temple complex
hasWritingSystem cuneiform
hasZiggurat Etemenanki ziggurat
surface form: Etemenanki
influenced Christian eschatology
Jewish thought
later Mesopotamian culture
knownFor Ishtar Gate
Processional Way
advanced legal traditions
astronomy and astrology
city walls
literature
mathematics
monumental architecture
religious temples
role in biblical tradition
ziggurats
locatedIn Mesopotamia
Iraq
surface form: modern-day Iraq
locatedNear Euphrates
surface form: Euphrates River
majorDeity Marduk
mentionedIn Book of Daniel
Book of Jeremiah
Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible
modernSiteNear Hillah, Iraq
partOf Ancient Mediterranean world
surface form: ancient Near East
symbolIn apocalyptic literature
symbolizes oppression and exile in Jewish tradition
pride and hubris in biblical tradition
UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear 2019
UNESCOWorldHeritageStatus World Heritage Site

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Exilarch David ben Zakkai countryOfResidence Babylon
subject surface form: David ben Zakkai
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Yekonyah exiledTo Babylon
Royal Road connects Babylon
Iraqi alluvial plain historicalRegionFor Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Darius III capital Babylon
Hephaestion burialPlace Babylon
Artaxerxes II capital Babylon
Babylonians country Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Babylonians centeredIn Babylon
Babylonians capital Babylon
Babylonians urbanCenter Babylon
Meshach setting Babylon
Darius the Mede governs Babylon
Abednego takenTo Babylon
Psalm 87 mentionsNation Babylon
Belšar-uṣur deathPlace Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylon (traditional/likely)
Belšar-uṣur governedTerritory Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Bel worshipPlace Babylon
Bel associatedCity Babylon
Bel regionOfCult Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
George Frideric Handel’s oratorio "Belshazzar" setting Babylon
subject surface form: Belshazzar
Processional Way locatedIn Babylon
Hillah, Iraq locatedNear Babylon
subject surface form: Hillah
John Martin’s painting "Belshazzar’s Feast" setIn Babylon
subject surface form: Belshazzar’s Feast (John Martin painting)
Hammurabi capital Babylon
Hammurabi territoryRuled Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Robert Koldewey workLocation Babylon
Sennacherib associatedPlace Babylon
Antiochus I placeOfBirth Babylon
Pyramus associatedWith Babylon
Pyramus settingOfStory Babylon
Book of Baruch setting Babylon
Formosante setting Babylon
King Moabdar countryRuled Babylon
King Moabdar setting Babylon
this entity surface form: ancient Babylon
Suppiluliuma I foreignRelations Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Enuma Elish associatedCity Babylon
Shamash majorCultCenter Babylon
666 notableTrack Babylon
Esarhaddon capital Babylon
Tammuz worshipRegion Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
northern Babylonia partOf Babylon
subject surface form: Northern Babylonia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Kassite period country Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia