![]() ![]() The walls which enclosed and guarded the whole - or which, perhaps one should rather say, guarded the district within which Babylon was placed-were remarkable for their great extent. He enlarged the old palace and added many. ![]() According to Greek estimates, the Median Wall may have been about 100 feet high. In addition, he erected another wall, the Median Wall, north of the city between the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers. ![]() ![]() He fortified the old double walls of Babylon, adding another triple wall outside the old wall. The construction activities by Nebuchadrezzar II surpassed those of most of the Assyrian kings in the history of Mesopotamia. Babylon, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad, was one of the great capitals of the ancient world (and most closely associated with King Nebuchadnezzar II, 605-562 BC) but it is also a center-point for myths and stories. ![]()
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