Ere Babylon was dust.

From: The Economist (US) | Date: April 12, 2008 | Copyright information

A fascinating exhibition exploring the history, legends and art of Babylon is now in Paris and will be moving on to Berlin and London

THE city has been all things to all men. To Jews, whose ancestors had been taken in captivity from Jerusalem in 586BC by King Nebuchadnezzar II, the rivers of Babylon were where they sat down and wept. Genesis claims that these Jews went on to build the Tower of Babel, although there is no physical evidence of its existence (or of the Hanging Gardens, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world). Reformation Christians depicted Babylon as a ...

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