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626–539 BCEIn-depth study

Glazed-brick lion panel from Babylon, about 604–562 BCE, now assembled as a museum panel. Lions lined the Processional Way; this is surviving architectural decoration, not a complete view of the ancient city.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Fletcher Fund, 1931 · 31.13.1 · Public domain / CC0 · Resized and converted to WebP · Licence terms

Middle East / Culture

Babylon: a city of colour, ritual and knowledge

Babylon was more than the setting of a conquest. Its glazed-brick streets, temples and scholarship reveal an urban society whose influence outlasted its imperial government.

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