Babylon
The Ancients
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Ancient History - Is Babylon in the Shadows of Other Cities?
There's a concentration on Nebuchadnezzar II, the one who took Jerusalem. But some of what has been assigned to him is now being assigned to later periods when the Seleucid kings followed the same kind of idea about using the buildings that were there and rebuilding on top of them. Why Babylon had an advantage even then is something I think we don't really know yet. It doesn't have a particular advantage in its position, for example.
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