. Un dizionario di conoscenza religiosa [risorsa elettronica]: Per uso popolare e professionale, comprendente informazioni complete su argomenti biblici, teologici ed ecclesiastici . e-ly drapped, dove il dio era supposto dimorare. A Babilonia c'erano i Gar-Den che, come le enormi mura della città, i Greci consideravano uno dei sette prodigi del mondo. Questo terreno di straordinario piacere, costruito da Nebuchadnezzarto soddisfare un capriccio di sua moglie Anrydis, era asquare, sostenuto su diversi livelli di openarches, che torreggeva in aria al heightof di almeno settantacinque piedi, e coperto a.

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. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . e-ly draped, where the god was supposed todwell. In Babylon were the Hanging Gar-dens, which, like the huge walls of the city, the Greeks regarded as one of the sevenwonders of the world. This extraordinarypleasure-ground, built by Nebuchadnezzarto satisfy a whim of his wife Anrydis, was asquare, supported upon several tiers of openarches, towering into the air to the heightof at least seventy-five feet, and covered atthe top with a great mass of earth, iu which Babylon was the metropolis of the prov-ince of the same name, and of the greatBabylonian Empire. Its history goes backto a time not very much later than theFlood, and some find its origin in the unfin-ished Tower of Babel (q. v.). In the rev-olutions of centuries it underwent manychanges under the various Chaldean, Ara-bian, and Assyrian dynasties ; and its story, from the chief city of the province in thesouthern portion of Mesopotamia to its su-premacy over the great Chaldaic-Babyloni-an Empire, is full of romance. The history. Chart of the country around Babylon, with limits of the ancient city. there grew not merely flowers and shrubs, but also trees of the largest size. The houses were in general lofty, beingthree or even four stories high. They aresaid to have had vaulted roofs, unprotectedby tiling, which the dry climate renderedunnecessary. The beams and pillars usedin the houses were of palm-wood, all othertimber being scarce in the country. Such, if we may believe the descriptions of eye-witnesses, 1 was the general character of thecity and its chief edifices. 1 Herodotus and Ctesias; see ante. of the Babylonian Empire commences withNabopolassar, who appears to have mountedthe throne B.C. 625. The original Chaldeanmonarchy, which began almost at the sametime as the city of Babylon, B.C. 2234, per-ished, through an Arab invasion

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