Babylon Archaeological Site

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ancient city archaeological site

The Babylon Archaeological Site is the ancient Mesopotamian city in present-day Iraq, renowned as a cradle of early civilization and legendary home of monuments like the Hanging Gardens and the Tower of Babel.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Babylon archaeological site	2
archaeological remains of Babylon	1
ruins of ancient Babylon	1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient city ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ
associatedWithEmpire	Babylonian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Neo-Babylonian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWithRuler	Hammurabi NERFINISHED ⓘ Nebuchadnezzar II NERFINISHED ⓘ
capitalOf	Babylonian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Neo-Babylonian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ
coordinateSystem	WGS84 NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Republic of Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ
culturalAssociation	Classical Greek historiography ⓘ Hebrew Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ Mesopotamian mythology ⓘ cradle of early civilization ⓘ
excavatedBy	Robert Koldewey NERFINISHED ⓘ
flourishedInPeriod	Neo-Babylonian period NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Babylonian period NERFINISHED ⓘ
foundedInCentury	3rd millennium BCE ⓘ
hasReconstructedElement	Ishtar Gate (partial reconstruction on site) NERFINISHED ⓘ
heritageDesignation	Tentative World Heritage Site (past) ⓘ UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ
inscriptionLanguageEvidence	Akkadian cuneiform ⓘ Aramaic ⓘ Sumerian cuneiform ⓘ
knownFor	Hanging Gardens of Babylon (legendary) NERFINISHED ⓘ Ishtar Gate NERFINISHED ⓘ Processional Way NERFINISHED ⓘ Tower of Babel (biblical tradition) NERFINISHED ⓘ city walls of Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ palace complexes ⓘ temple of Marduk (Esagila) NERFINISHED ⓘ ziggurats ⓘ
locatedIn	Babylon Governorate NERFINISHED ⓘ Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedNear	Hillah NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedOnRiver	Euphrates River NERFINISHED ⓘ
majorExcavationEndYear	1917 ⓘ
majorExcavationStartYear	1899 ⓘ
managedBy	State Board of Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	ancient Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ
periodOfGreatestMonumentalConstruction	reign of Nebuchadnezzar II ⓘ
primaryDeityWorshipped	Marduk NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedArtifactLocation	Pergamon Museum, Berlin (Ishtar Gate reconstruction) NERFINISHED ⓘ
threatenedBy	conflict-related damage ⓘ looting ⓘ modern development ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria	(iii) ⓘ (vi) ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear	2019 ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageStatus	inscribed ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hanging Gardens of Babylon → UNESCOWorldHeritageContext → Babylon Archaeological Site ⓘ

Hillah → adjacentTo → Babylon Archaeological Site ⓘ

this entity surface form: ruins of ancient Babylon

UNESCO World Heritage (as part of Babylon) → appliesTo → Babylon Archaeological Site ⓘ

this entity surface form: archaeological remains of Babylon

Hillah → hasNearbyArchaeologicalSite → Babylon Archaeological Site ⓘ

this entity surface form: Babylon archaeological site

Hillah, Iraq → hasNearbyWorldHeritageSite → Babylon Archaeological Site ⓘ

subject surface form: Hillah

this entity surface form: Babylon archaeological site