Etemenanki
Sign in to savethumb|Reconstruction of Etemenanki, based on Schmid Etemenanki () was a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in the ancient city of Babylon. It now exists only in ruins, located about south of Baghdad, Iraq. Many scholars have identified Etemenanki as the ziggurat for the biblical account of the Tower of Babel.
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- Instance of
- ziggurat
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Babylon Governorate
- Location
- Babylon
- Image
- Etemenanki Berlin.jpg
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- Etemenanki
- native label
- 𒂍𒋼𒀭𒆠
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- Final demolition
- Modern hypotheses regarding height
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- Notes
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thumb|Reconstruction of Etemenanki, based on Schmid Etemenanki () was a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in the ancient city of Babylon. It now exists only in ruins, located about south of Baghdad, Iraq. Many scholars have identified Etemenanki as the ziggurat for the biblical account of the Tower of Babel.
==Construction== It is unclear when Etemenanki was originally constructed. Andrew R. George says that it was constructed sometime between the 14th and the 9th century BCE. He argues as follows:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Etemenanki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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