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Babylon, ancient city in southern Mesopotamia

3D models captured by the Tech4Heritage project from Babylon and the nearby city of Borsippa with items from European museum collections.

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Ancient Babylon is one of the most important and ancient cities of the Near East and the capital of the ancient Babylonian state, in southern Mesopotamia, 85 km south of present day Baghdad. It was the center of Akkadian language and Babylonian power and …

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The date of construction of Ziggurate is estimated at about 4200 BC to 2500 BC, which was common in most major cities of ancient Mesopotamia, built for the main god of the city, an invention of the Sumerians, but later built by the Babylonians and Assyria…

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Part of the inner wall of the city of Babylon, built from mud bricks. This part is located to the west of the Ishtar Gate. The last maintenance work on this part of the internal wall was in the 1980s. The 3D model is to be used to identify progression of…

Rijksmuseum

De muren van Babylon, in cirkels gebouwd. Linksachter een groot gebouw met toren. Op de voorgrond koningin Semiramis als een amazone te paard. Gewapend met pijl en boog is zij is in gevecht met een leeuw. In de achtergrond de hangende tuinen van Babylon: …

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Part of a wall built of firebrick and lime located on the eastern side of the northern palace of King Nebuchadnezzar II. The walls of the palace are in a constant state of erosion as a result of their direct exposure to weather. Digitised by participants…

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A square-shaped limestone located in the middle of the Northern Procession Way (north of the Ishtar Gate). It is one of the stones with which the Procession Way was paved after the modernizations that took place in the city of Babylon, especially in the l…

Catholic University of Leuven

KU Leuven. Glass slides art history. Université de Louvain, between 1839 and 1939. Photographer unknown. Added information on slide. Style: Mesopotamian art (Neo-Babylonian art). Original location/Find: Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Babylon (Iraq, Babylon). Cre…

Archaeology Data Service

The drawing shows a moulded or impressed brick from the site of Babylon, with the figure of a lion and symbols or an inscription above it.

Toy Museum of the City of Nuremberg

Erdal-Kwak-series: Cults of pre-Christian religions: Temple of Babylon & Temple on the island of Philä near Assuan & Acropolis in Athens & Temple of Faustina & Stonehenge & Temple in Kukulcan; 7 Erdal-Kwak-series (No. 2 double) with re…

Rijksmuseum
German Archaeological Institute
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Among the ancient remains of Ziggurate was a Sumerian culture built to honor the gods. The Borsippa Ziggurate One of the most important Ziggurate in the ancient city of Babylon, southwest of Babylon in central present-day Iraq. Its construction dates back…

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Borsippa or Birs Nimrud (having been identified with Nimrod) is an archeological site in Babil Governorate, Iraq. The ziggurat one of the most identifiable surviving ones, identified in the later Arabic culture with the Tower of Babel due to Nebuchadnezza…

Archaeology Data Service

The map shows ancient sites and modern (i.e. nineteenth-century) place names for the area around the Persian gulf.

German Archaeological Institute

Erhaltungszustand: Oberfläche zum Teil stark abegrieben.

German Archaeological Institute
Nottingham City Museums and Galleries

[1] red coloured stone with cuneiform inscription on 2 sides [2] text only from brick of Nebuchadnezzar, cuneiform inscription [3] complete brick of Nebuchadnezzar, cuneiform inscription in centre, [1] Faded cuneiform writing on the front. Large cuneiform…

Nottingham City Museums and Galleries

Fragment of stone with Assyrian cuneiform inscription and portion of 2 sculpted figures from ancient city of Babylon., The top 10cm of the stone contains 7 lines of cuneiform writing. Underneath there is a horizontal strip outset from the stone. Below tha…

Museum of the Ancient Near East, Berlin State Museums
Museum of the Ancient Near East, Berlin State Museums
Museum of the Ancient Near East, Berlin State Museums
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Among the ancient remains of Ziggurate was a Sumerian culture built to honor the gods. The Borsippa Ziggurate One of the most important Ziggurate in the ancient city of Babylon, southwest of Babylon in central present-day Iraq. Its construction dates back…

Museum of the Ancient Near East, Berlin State Museums
Museum of the Ancient Near East, Berlin State Museums
Museum of the Ancient Near East, Berlin State Museums
Museum of the Ancient Near East, Berlin State Museums
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Babylon . x000D A remarkable aerial picture just received in London .x000D 27 September 1928

Museum of the Ancient Near East, Berlin State Museums
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Among the ancient remains of Ziggurate was a Sumerian culture built to honor the gods. The Borsippa Ziggurate One of the most important Ziggurate in the ancient city of Babylon, southwest of Babylon in central present-day Iraq. Its construction dates back…

The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities

Repro. Rekonstruktion av Nebukanesars Ishtaporten i Babylon.; 04423

Postmuseum

Kilskrift letter found in Babylon’s ruins. From about 500 fkr. Square clay plate. Writing of a newspaper note in Hedin-PaintIII.12: Dr. Sven Hedin, who visited Postmuseum the other day, handed over to the museum as a gift a very interesting objects, namel…

Wellcome Collection

Lettering: V. u. d. K. I Ab. II. Th. ; Antiq. Tom. II.; The city of Babylon