Borsippa
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borsippa-189-2556783
title:
Borsippa
text:
Borsippa (Sumerian: BAD.SI..AB.BAKI or Birs Nimrud is an archeological site in Babylon Governorate, Iraq built on both sides of a lake about 17.7 km southwest of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates. It lies 15 kilometers from the ancient site of Dilbat. The ziggurat is today one of the most vividly identifiable surviving ones, identified in the later Arabic culture with the Tower of Babel due to Nebuchadnezzar referring to it as the Tower of Borsippa or tongue tower, as stated in the stele
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Ancient Babylonian city
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borsippa
date created:
2004-05-04T05:50:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T04:30:58Z
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