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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Kassite period capital Babylon
Nuska worshipRegion Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Ea worshipCenter Babylon
Sarpanit worshipCenter Babylon
Sarpanit associatedCity Babylon
mushhushshu dragon mainSite Babylon
subject surface form: Mushhushshu
Akitu celebratedIn Babylon
Kish locatedNear Babylon
Assyrian king Ashur-uballit I foreignRelations Babylon
subject surface form: Ashur-uballit I
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Enki worshipCenter Babylon
Rabbinic literature originatesFrom Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Ishkur worshippedIn Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Adad centerOfCult Babylon
Ninsun worshipPlace Babylon
Eternals setting Babylon
subject surface form: Eternals (film)
Mesopotamian cuneiform regionUsed Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Middle Babylonian usedIn Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Shalmaneser III campaignRegion Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Hillah adjacentTo Babylon
Hillah locatedInHistoricalRegion Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Z hasPart Babylon
Lower Mesopotamia contains Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Sheshbazzar (in some interpretations) associatedPlace Babylon
subject surface form: Sheshbazzar
Jehozadak captivity Babylon
The Babylonian Story setInPeriod Babylon
this entity surface form: ancient Babylon
Persian court location Babylon
Thisbe basedIn Babylon
Ezra associatedWithPlace Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Shmuel of Nehardea region Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Rav activeIn Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Ravina activeIn Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Rav Yosef region Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Abba Arika (Rav) region Babylon
subject surface form: Abba Arika
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Natronai Gaon workLocation Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Natronai Gaon placeOfActivity Babylon
this entity surface form: Babylonia