America has to have this WALL, before it can officially be "Mystery Babylon". I'll explain!

Are ancient Babylon walls related to the great wall of china? Now that's a wall.

The two walls of Babylon were the fortifications of the city of Babylon. They were among the seven wonders of the ancient world. After their expiration, they were removed from the list and replaced with the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Taken as a whole is called only by a wall.

History
The Babylonian walls Imgur-Nemed-Enlil and Enlil were the Pyramids of Giza, the oldest of the seven wonders of the world. Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC added to the East Wall (Osthaken) the city walls. At that time, Babylon was the capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Nebuchadnezzar's goal was to make Babylon bigger and more beautiful than it ever was a city. By its construction, he surpassed his father Nabopolassar.

In the view of Nebuchadnezzar took the city an additional wall, just let the enemies to be awestruck, and the inhabitants of the city brought to marvel. Thus, an ancient text has been preserved by Nebuchadnezzar in cuneiform, which states: "What no King has done before me, I did, 4000 Ellen Country (about two kilometers sideways) of the city, distant, unapproachable, I had a huge wall eastward to enclose Babylon. I completed Babylon. "

The construction of the wall had pragmatic reasons. In the cities of antiquity, it is acting strongholds. A wall had to ring the living space of residents as a protective belt uniform span. After Nebuchadnezzar's death, the city under Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great was taken. Both rulers were preparing to besiege the city, in order not to overrun the walls. When Babylon fell apart over the years, dropping from the metropolis to a small town, in the end declined even to a small village, the faded beauty and grandeur of the ancient wonders walls of Babylon.

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