Pyramid Explorer

Etemenanki (Tower of Babel)

Babylon, Hillah, Iraq

Ziggurat (destroyed, hypothetical reconstruction). Height: 91 m. Date: 604–562 BCE (rebuilt by Nebuchadnezzar II, following work by Nabopolassar); origins possibly in the 2nd millennium BCE.

Temple dedicated to Marduk. Some scholars believe it influenced the biblical story of the Tower of Babel. The height of 91 m comes from the Esagila tablet; a modern estimate gives about 66 m.

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