2019 – Posted in: ART & CULTURE – Tags: World Heritage Sites

UNESCO lists Iraq’s Babylon as World Heritage Site

The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Babylon, about 85 kilometres south of Baghdad, was once the centre of a sprawling empire, renowned for its towers and mudbrick temples.
Its hanging gardens were one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, commissioned by King Nebuchadnezzar II.
A UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, made the ancient Mesopotamian city on the Euphrates River the sixth world heritage site within the borders of a country known as a cradle of civilization.
The other five World Heritage Sites are the southern marshlands, Hatra, Samarra, Ashur and the citadel in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.

Important Info

Research shows that the Ancient Babylonians were using geometrical calculations to track Jupiter across the night sky.
Ancient Babylonians ‘first to use geometry’
Clay tablets engraved with their Cuneiform writing system have already shown these people were advanced in astronomy.
They wrote reports about what they saw in the sky.

Source: BBC

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