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Sentence Examples It was during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar in the Chaldean dynasty in Babylon that the circle was divided into 360 degrees. Coming back in from Oyster Bay we changed again at Mineola to a Patchogue train and got off at Babylon. In the Old Babylon version, as well as the Hittite version, Enkidu is raised by the animals and suckled on their milk. At Babylon there is a famous basalt statue of a man being mauled by a lion. In 1851, British archaeologists discovered hundreds of clay tablets while digging in ancient Babylon. About 17 years earlier, in 519 BC, the first exiles had returned from Babylon with high hopes of a new life. The prophecy pictures the return of the exiles from Babylon as being like the deliverance from slavery in Egypt. The Babylon acted swiftly and managed to find one of the suspects by fingerprinting. Al-Moallaqa Church was the seat of the bishop of Babylon in the seventh century, and of the Coptic patriarchate in the ninth. Anyway, old Neb thought he was the greatest wonder of the world, especially after doing an Alan Titchmarsh on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. On the left are ranged the presidents of the US, on the right the royal line of Ur and Babylon. All people should have dreadlocks because nobody has ever said to wash your hair but Babylon. She invites the audience to sing along to a plaintive, hymnal Rivers of Babylon. Go south to Sumerian and Babylonian sites, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Borsippar, Nippur, Uruk, Ur, Eridu. The hypothesis that Babylon was ruled by an Aryan dynasty was strictly contradicted by Berosus and the records disentombed from the ruins. Ancient Babylon, with its glistening towers and lavish horticultural cascades, must once have inspired similar reverential whispers. From beneath mounds of sand and debris, Babylon and Nineveh were exposed to view together with whole libraries of clay cuneiform tablets. After Babylon, we entered the world of non-electrified trackage and grade crossings. They are so easily seduced into the great house of Babylon known as the palace. He holds it out in his hand to me as if he is offering the balm of Gilead or all the riches of Babylon or something precious and extravagant like that. Show More Sentences Hamurabi of Babylon was the sixth king in an Amorite dynasty. Babylon could be a euphemism for Rome or it could just be a metaphor for imagined exile. Cities like Pompeii and Petra, Heliopolis in Egypt and Ayutthaya in Thailand, Ur and Jericho and Babylon in the Fertile Crescent. Who are the rightful heirs of Babylon or the Ottoman Empire? The body of Hephaestion was embalmed and carried on to Babylon to be burned on a funeral pyre in a funeral on which he planned to spend astronomical sums. During the reign of the Medes, the Iranians adopted the Babylon Cuneiform symbols and later they created the Avesta and Pahlavi scripts using Arami scripts. In ancient Babylon a sexagesimal system, that is a base of 60, was in use. Even the Rastafarian character relates it to the Biblical Babylon city. The people trampling over Babylon, ignorantly stamping out the fragile remains of a centuries-old civilisation, were soldiers, not archaeologists. Over 4000 years ago the Sumerian merchants of Babylon and Nineveh recorded bills, receipts and promissory notes in cuneiform script on clay tablets. The many glories of Babylon, for example, lay unexplored not far from the boundaries of Baghdad. This is why Rastafarians refer to the repressive outside world as Babylon. Babylon 8 provides bidirectional single-click translation, in over 75 languages, from some 2,000 information sources. After a few false starts I finally meet the Swiss French snowboarder at Europe's winter sports brodown Babylon. And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land. It is more than two weeks that Babylon 5 aired for the last time. We, Portuguese Fivers of conviction, are few. The city had been the centre of local pottery production for more than 700 years, including pottery known as Babylon ware. In 1999, the Rolling Stones staged the No Security Tour in the US and continued the Bridges to Babylon tour in Europe. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in Ancient Greece, Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. The decline of a dynasty or culture could also mean the extinction of its capital city, as occurred at Babylon and Cahokia. Show More Sentences While the concept of codification dates back to the Code of Hammurabi in Babylon ca. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. One of these small Amorite kingdoms founded in 1894 BC contained the then small administrative town of Babylon within its borders. During the first dynasty of Babylon, Hammurabi and his governors served as the highest appellate courts of the land. Ur, Kish, Isin, Larsa and Nippur in the Middle Bronze Age and Babylon, Calah and Assur in the Late Bronze Age similarly had large populations. According to the book of Ezra, the Persian Cyrus the Great ended the Babylonian exile in 538 BCE, the year after he captured Babylon. This city was the birthplace of the last king of Babylon, the Assyrian Nabonidus and his son and regent Belshazzar. Another hypothesis is that the rulers of Charax had expansionist designs on Parthian Babylon, giving them a rationale for alliance with Trajan. From Babylon, Alexander went to Susa, one of the Achaemenid capitals, and captured its treasury. The satrapies handed out by Perdiccas at the Partition of Babylon became power bases each general used to bid for power. The empires of Assyria, Babylon, Carthage and Rome exacted tribute from their provinces and subject kingdoms. The Israelites were carried off to Babylon, where they wept by the waters. The Hittites retired to their lands, leaving Babylon in the hands of the neighboring Kassites. For example, Zeus Greek mythology is dominated by Kronos Marduk in Babylon mythology. I do like a laugh and thought it would be humorous for Babylon 5 fans to see old stuffed shirt Commander Ivanova singing things like this. For both poets, to remain unawakened is to build Babylon in place of Jerusalem in every age. According to the Talmud, the Ark was either hidden by King Josiah or transported to exile in Babylon. Then he marched east into Babylon, Parthia, and India, and conquered them all. Arabia Deserta was the entire desert region extending north from Arabia Felix to Palmyra and the Euphrates, including all the area between Pelusium on the Nile and Babylon. Hephaestion's death devastated Alexander, and he ordered the preparation of an expensive funeral pyre in Babylon, as well as a decree for public mourning. Show More Sentences He probably traveled to Tyre next and then down the Euphrates to Babylon. Its greatest king, Nebuchadnezzar II, rivalled another non native ruler, the ethnically unrelated Amorite king Hammurabi, as the greatest king of Babylon. Did all the Fivers who watched it notice that the female scientist was played by Tamlyn Tomita, the actress who played Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima in Babylon 5's pilot movie? Will the sinner knowingly spurn exomologesis, which has been instituted by God for his restoration? that exomologesis which restored the king of Babylon to his royal throne? The project will also contain models of Ayers Rock in Australia, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in Iraq, Mount Rushmore in USA and Resurrection Island in the South Atlantic. Soon afterward, a mountain tribe called the Kassites invades Babylon. Examples from Classical Literature The prodigy connected with this siege of Babylon was the foaling of a mule. If it was Germanophile or Austrophile, it was more wicked than the harlot of Babylon. I have always said that the hanging gardens of borstal knocked spots off the hanging gardens of Babylon, and now I know it. During the long period of Kassite rule, Babylon experienced many vicissitudes. Look up that raciest of commentators, and see what he there says about the deliberate tears of the captives in Babylon. But Mr. Frazer does not here tell us that the king of Babylon is also Tammuz. The transfer of his name and powers as god of Nippur to Marduk, the god of Babylon. But this is not the only loan that India has been supposed to have negotiated in Babylon. We find no remains of columns at Babylon, as none have been found at Nineveh. Like the handwriting on the wall in Babylon, it had taken place in silence. It reminds me, a captive by the waters of Babylon, that God is ever with the friendless. He has also pointed out that both Abydenus and polyhistor mention this campaign against Babylon. What I do suggest is that the Hebrews must have gained some acquaintance with the legends of Babylon in pre-exilic times. Because if we are to join him at all, we must march right past Babylon itself. If he visits a religious shrine, he can think of nothing but the abominations of the scarlet woman of Babylon. Following the track of the caravan, he was to make his way to Babylon, or Bagdad. Yet Belshazzar was not the son of Nebuchadnezzar, neither was he king of Babylon. There is not a known hint that any mock-king died in Babylon about Eastertide, or earlier, at the feast of Zakmuk. Like the Elamite war-captive he represents the king of Babylon, and dies for him. But, as relations between Elam and Babylon grew more peaceful, Elamite captives were scarce. Show More Sentences Farnell does not mention this suggestion in his Greece and Babylon, p. 269 ff. Further, the son of Nabunaid perished, not in Babylon, but in Accad. But Babylon was made into one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Lines 44 and 45 announce Marduk's determination to build Babylon. The prophet Daniel speaks more than once of the magicians of Babylon. In such a way Babylon rose and fell, and Nineveh, and Thebes, and Carthage, and Rome. Because Paris is going to be reduced to dust and ashes like Babylon, of which you have no doubt heard tell. The sacea were a festival at Babylon similar to the Saturnalia. Their winter residence is at Seleucia, on the Tigris, near Babylon. He set it up in the plain of dura, in the province of Babylon. The great city of Babylon was built upon the haugh of a river. Ezekiel represents Babylon and Egypt, symbolically, as two eagles. And after the marriage his steeds were yoked and they set out for Babylon. They're pirated editions of Love in Babylon, that's what they are. But who is to rebuild Babylon and to repeople the land of the Assyrians? F, Parthian Calendars at Babylon and Seleucia on the Tigris. Like Prophet Muhammad, Ibrahim was born at a time when ignorance was at its peak, at Babylon in Iraq during the reign of a tyrant disbeliever Namrud. It suggested, rather, some archaic headdress of Persia or Babylon. Find more words! 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