Talk:Babylon
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Main pic
editI believe the main pic is from a Saddam-era reconstruction, although I don't have any written sources on-hand to back that up. I visited Babylon last month, and an archaeologist there told me that this part (most of what surrounds the procession path above modern ground-level) was reconstructed.
Should we use another pic instead? I took several of parts that are supposedly parts of the original ruins, I can upload them to Commons upon request.
The Saddam reconstructions, while visually impressive and undoubtedly beautiful in parts, leave kind of a bad taste in peoples' mouths. They're also just modern reconstructions, undoubtedly inaccurate (not to mention the Babylonians wouldn't have stamped Saddam's name in their bricks). He destroyed so much data when creating these. toobigtokale (talk) 22:08, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
History of the city: 14 centuries are missing
editAt least 14: a short mention of C2 BCE, with a few words about 1 century later, and then nothing till C13 CE! Generalities about Mesopotamia or the region around Babylon are masking 14-15 centuries of zero info about the city, town, village, whatever! Far from ideal. Nothing excavated from these 1400 years, no sources for them? I came looking for info on C3 CE, i.e. if a mention on another page isn't wrongly linked here, but found nothing. So it's not just theoretical. Arminden (talk) 23:58, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
Hebrew Bible sourcing
editThere are a number of references, in different formats and many broken, pointing to verses in the Hebrew Bible. If someone was familiar with the wikipedia Bibleverse template [1] and feels like sorting them all out that would be good. Ploversegg (talk) 19:10, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
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