Category: Babylon

According to accounts, the gardens were built to cheer upNebuchadnezzar’s homesick wife, Amyitis. Amyitis, daughter of theking of the Medes, was married to Nebuchadnezzar to create analliance between the two nations. The land she came from, though,was green, rugged and READ MORE

“Babylon” in its first appearance in the [KJV]King James Version of the Holy Bible [II Kings17:24]: “And the king of Assyria brought men from BABYLON…”[according to the [LIT] the Literal Bible w/Strong’sDefinitions — comes from the word “BABEL” first mentionedin READ MORE

the Code of hammurabi. “an eye for an eye”.

The Greek geographer Strabo, who described the gardens in firstcentury BC, wrote, “It consists of vaulted terraces raised oneabove another, and resting upon cube-shaped pillars. These arehollow and filled with earth to allow trees of the largest size tobe planted. READ MORE

He was a cool dude bro…wrote to free the native americans fromtheir hard work on the marijuana plantations

In Bible times, the Babylonians had their own religion, that wassimilar in many ways to the religion of the Mesopotamians andSumerians who also lived in that region. The Babylonian religionwas polytheistic, with many gods and goddesses. Their chiefscripture was the READ MORE

He wrote the first codified set of laws inhistory. He noticed that cruel rulers had a short life and camewith a just set of laws.

It helped kings to live more than before andthe citizens had more peace with the improvements in society.

Actually, the code was designed for primitivesocieties and it was complete for most historians.

It was rebuild by Saddam Hussein, King of Iraq.