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Mohaned Ahmed is standing on scaffolding at the ancient site of Babylon, dipping water into a bucket and sponging the bricks around a stone relief showing a dragon with a serpent's head.

No ancient city was so desired and feared ... When the first-century B.C. writer Diodorus Siculus describes the walls of Babylon, he actually appears to be describing the walls of Nineveh ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

The sun-hardened mud bricks favored by Babylon’s builders ... expanding the city’s walls (a task that allegedly took 15 days and is also considered a wonder of the ancient world), the king ...

Ancient accounts described the Babylon's ... In another passage Diodorus describes the walls of Babylon, detailing its rich depiction of animals, hunted by “Queen Semiramis on horseback in ...

It is, after all, Babylon's walls rather than her gardens which appear time and again in ancient Wonder-lists.' Located in the Ancient Greek city of Ephsus - in what is now Selçuk in Turkey - the ...

They piece together the lives of ancient people ... size and complexity of Babylon, uncovering the foundations of the famed Ishtar Gate, the towering walls of the city, and remnants of palaces ...

There were miles of walls built around the city of Babylon, if not the palace, and many of them are large enough that they could have supported the kind of terracing many ancient historians mentioned.