BBC5 年
Ancient city of Babylon designated Unesco World Heritage Site
The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be added to the United Nations ...
National Geographic news1 个月
Beautiful Babylon: Jewel of the Ancient World
No ancient city was so desired and feared ... When the first-century B.C. writer Diodorus Siculus describes the walls of Babylon, he actually appears to be describing the walls of Nineveh ...
BBC6 年
How ancient civilisations helped build our modern cities
The ancient city of Babylon is thought to be the first place where clay was moulded into pipes to channel waste away from dwellings. The earliest example of piping, knee and t-joints – thousands ...
来自MSN3 个月
The Oldest Surviving Map Of The World Was Created By Ancient Babylonians On A Clay Tablet ...
They were painted onto cave walls or carved into stone ... Some experts believe it was originally uncovered in the ancient city of Borsippa. Currently, the map is housed in the British Museum ...