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What ancient Egyptians and surrounding cultures looked like, including Babylonians. Source. -X
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Babylonian cylinder with building dedication from the era of king Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon (605-562 BCE). The cylinder commemorates the rebuilding of the temple of the god Lugal-Marada at the Sumerian city of Marad in Babylonia by king Nebuchadnezzar II. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD.
Photo by Babylon Chronicle
Detail of a limestone lion attacking s bull from Palace H in Persepolis, attributed to the reign of king Artaxerxes III of Persia (358-338 BCE) and the first Pharaoh Egypt’s the 31st dynasty. Artaxerxes III ruled his vast Achaemenid Empire from Babylon. During his reign, the famous Palace of king Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon was expanded. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Photo by Babylon Chronicle
Kudurru of Nazimaruttash, Kassite King of Babylon, showing Gula the Goddess of Healing (calcite), Mesopotamian-Iraq, (13th century BC) - Private Collection.
Detail of the Tower of Babel stele, with the engraving of King Nebuchadnezzar II. (Copyright The Schøyen Collection, MS 2063).
Babylon, (present day Al Hillah), Babylon Province, Iraq.
At ancient Babylon’s Ishtar Gate, Iraqi workers labor with a heavy saw, hammers, a chisel and crowbar to break up and remove a concrete slab that is hastening the structure’s decay.
The concrete lies between the two long, towering walls of tan bricks decorated with processions of bulls and…
Nebuchadrezzar’s throne room facade.
Reconstuction model of Ishtar Gate, Babylon.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon art.
Babylonian Captives - The Rebel against Sennacherib
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Notice how the Assyrian and Babylonian men look almost the same.
They after all are both Mesopotamian!
The Nabonidus Chronicle (British Museum).
Sliver Tetradrachm with head of Alexander the Great (316-310 BCE). In this coin, Alexander wears an elephant-skin headdress, alluding to his conquest of the East. The Macedonian king ruled Babylon from 331 BCE until his death in that same city in 323 BCE. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Photo by Babylon Chronicle
