Babylon Quotes

“Following a long siege, the city fell later that year, signaling not just freedom for Babylon”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“Before his death, Sargon established a port city on the Euphrates River. This was Babylon,”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“Babylon gained its first Amorite ruler,”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“In the Christian Bible, Babylon is used as a symbol of those who reject the Word of God”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“God scattered the people of Babel across the Earth and condemned them to use many different languages”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“Genesis, the founding of Babel (Babylon) is described and credited to a king named Nimrod,”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“in the Bible and is often used as the personification of greed, wealth, and godlessness.”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.” —Revelations”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“The only mention of Babylon occurs when it is noted that the writer visited “a small village called Babel”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“Rashidun Caliphate”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“By 116 CE, Roman forces under the command of Emperor Trajan briefly took control of the area,”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground.” —Isaiah 21:9”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“Seleucus did not share Alexander’s reverence for the city of Babylon,”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“Diodorus Siculus claimed that Darius forces numbered more than two-hundred thousand cavalry and more than one million infantry”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“the summer of 336 BCE, Philip II, king of the Greek province of Macedon, was assassinated.”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“Thales of Miletus”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“also released all the Jews who had been exiled by Nebuchadnezzar and allowed them to return to Jerusalem”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“none specifically mention a magnificent garden.”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“though contemporary writings mention many of Nebuchadnezzar’s construction projects,”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“No trace of them has been found during extensive excavations of the ancient city of Babylon”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“The gardens were built next to a magnificent palace created for the new king which was modestly called “The Marvel of Mankind.”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“for his Iranian wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green, rolling landscape”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“The gardens were said to have been constructed on the orders of Nebuchadnezzar II”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“although no one outside could see it being done.”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“supplying the garden with water, the machines raising the water in great abundance from the river,”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“Several royal apartments were constructed in the gardens, and irrigation was done by “machines”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“The gardens were planted with large trees as well as flora from Iran and Persia”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“several parts of the structure rose from one another tier on tier,”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“The garden was built as a series of ascending terraces which “sloped like a hillside and”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“in his mammoth book Bibliotheca historica (Universal History).”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End