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The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World as listed by Hellenic culture, described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and vines, resembling a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks, and said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq. Its name is derived from the Greek word kremastós , which has a broader meaning than the modern English word hanging and refers to trees being planted on a raised structure such as a terrace.According to one legend, the Hanging Gardens were built alongside a grand palace known as The Marvel of Mankind, by the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II , for his Median wife Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland. This was attested to by the Babylonian priest Berossus, writing in about 290 BC, a description that was later quoted by Josephus. The construction of the Hanging Gardens has also been attributed to Queen Semiramis, who ruled Babylon in the 9th century BC, and they have been called the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis as an alternate name.The Hanging Gardens are the only one of the Seven Wonders for which the location has not been definitively established. There are no extant Babylonian texts that mention the gardens, and no definitive archaeological evidence has been found in Babylon. Three theories have been suggested to account for this. One: that they were purely mythical, and the descriptions found in ancient Greek and Roman writers including Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus represent a romantic ideal of an eastern garden. Two: that they existed in Babylon, but were completely destroyed sometime around the first century AD. Three: that the legend refers to a well-documented garden that the Assyrian King Sennacherib built in his capital city of Nineveh on the River Tigris, near the modern city of Mosul.
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Iraq Babylon Vlog - Saddam's Palace, Al Hillah, Al Kufa بابل العراق - قصر صدام، الحلة، الكوفة

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I entered Iraq as a volunteer English teacher in the city of Najaf. Throughout my stay in Iraq, I was able to travel to different parts of the country, such as Baghdad, Babylon, Al Kufa and Al Hillah. This vlog covers my visit to the ancient city of Babylon, Al Hillah city, one of Saddam Hussein's old palaces, and Al Kufah city.

Intro - 00:00
Al Hillah - 00:58
Babylon Ruins - 01:25
Saddam's Palace - 03:26
Euphrates River - 04:48
Al Kufah - 05:22
Leaving Iraq Suddenly - 06:24

This video is NOT intended to be political, which should be evident by the content of it. Please try to keep the comment section civil.

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HILLAH BABYLON IRAQ STREET

بابل الحلة

Driving Through Al Hillah, Babylon Iraq

Babil Province - Iraq

Babil province in Iraq is home to the ancient city of Babylon and it is also host to other famous, popular and ancient Iraqi cities like Sippar, Borsippa, Kish, Seleucia, Al-Hillah or Hilla, Kifil, Al-Hashmiya, Al-Qasim, Mahmudiyah, Al-Hamzah, Al-Madhatiyah, Iskandariya, Latifiya, Salman-Pak, Yusufiyah, Musayyib, Al-Mahawil and of course the gate of Ishtar at the ancient ruins of Babylon (Babil, after which the region is named) and few other PROUD Iraqi villages and cities ... Magnificent places you won't believe your eyes and you wouldn’t think 10,000+ ancient and wonderful places still exist in the cradle of civilization once known as Mesopotamia and best known today as Iraq

Iraq's national culture: Babylon

The archaeological site of Babylon is commonly referred to as the cradle of civilization. According to academics, the damage wrought on the site since the turn of the 20th century — from the construction railroads, military bases, and oil pipelines — is part of its evolutional significance to the Iraqi nation-state.

Convoy From Baghdad To Al Hillah

October 2003 convoy from Baghdad to the Coalition Provisional Authority headquarters in Al Hillah

Iraq, Babylon, Qasim City

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Babylon, Ancient Iraq

Babilonia Babylon. Babylon was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which can be found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad.

Iraq's ancient city of Babylon بابل كما لم تشهدها من قبل

العراق مدينه بابل الاثرية حضارات ما بين النهرين

Hillah, the Land of Light The Inheritor of Babylon

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Iraq - Babylon eagle eye

Krótka impresja na temat lotniczej przygody nad Babilonem, gdzie przebywaliśmy na zaproszenie Rządu Irackiego. Dziękujemy Irakijczykom za gościnę i opiekę. Oby jak najszybciej zapanował u nich pokój i można było odwiedzać ich turystycznie, bo warto..
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Iraq celebrates Babylon UNESCO decision

(5 Jul 2019) Iraq on Friday celebrated the UNESCO World Heritage Committee's decision to name the historic city of Babylon a World Heritage Site in a vote held in Azerbaijan's capital, years after Baghdad began campaigning for the site to be added to the list.
The city on the Euphrates River is about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south of Baghdad and once was a main tourist attraction before Iraq suffered one war after another in the past four decades.
The 4,300-year-old Babylon -- now mainly an archaeological ruin and two important museums -- is where dynasties have risen and fallen since the earliest days of settled human civilization.
King Hammurabi wrote his famous code of laws in Babylon, while Nebuchadnezzar sent his vast army from the city to Jerusalem to put down an uprising and bring the Jews back as slaves.
Some say Alexander the Great, who led his army out of Macedonia to conquer most of the known world, died here in 332 B.C.
Dozens of Iraqis waving their national flag gathered at the Ishtar Gate at the site celebrating their city's new international status.

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Iraqi students discover a whole city near Babylon

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Babylon (Arabic: بابل, Babil; Akkadian: Bābili(m) Sumerian logogram: KÁ.DINGIR.RAKI Hebrew: בבל, Bābel; Greek: Βαβυλών, Babylōn) was an Akkadian city-state (founded in 1867 BC by an Amorite dynasty) of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. Babylon, along with Assyria to the north, was one of the two Akkadian nations that evolved after the collapse of the Akkadian Empire, although it was rarely ruled by native Akkadians. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a mound, or tell, of broken mud-brick buildings and debris in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The city itself was built upon the Euphrates, and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods.

Available historical resources suggest that Babylon was at first a small town which had sprung up by the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC. The town flourished and attained independence with the rise of the First Amorite Babylonian Dynasty in 1894 BC. Claiming to be the successor of the ancient Eridu, Babylon eclipsed Nippur as the holy city of Mesopotamia around the time an Amorite king named Hammurabi first created the short lived Babylonian Empire, this quickly dissolved upon his death and Babylon spent long periods under Assyrian, Kassite and Elamite domination. Babylon again became the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 to 539 BC which was founded by Chaldeans and whose last king was an Assyrian. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. After the fall of Babylon it came under the rules of the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, Roman and Sassanid empires. It was dissolved as a province after the Arab Islamic conquest of the 7th century AD.

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