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11 stories set in Iraq, including Babylon, Mesopotamia, Babylon, Ur, Iraq, Aqar Quf, Iraq, Dur-Sharrukin, Nineveh, Khorsabad, Uruk, Iraq.

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon: a world wonder of c. 600 BCE (World Wonder · Babylon, Mesopotamia) — c. 600 BCE, Babylon, Mesopotamia. Greek writers described terraces of trees watered as if a mountain had been built in the flat alluvium of
Ishtar Gate of Babylon: a world wonder of c. 575 BCE (World Wonder · Babylon) — c. 575 BCE, Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar II glazed the gate in cobalt blue and marched aurochs and mushussu dragons down the Processional Way tow
Great Ziggurat of Ur: a world wonder of c. 2100 BCE (World Wonder · Ur, Iraq) — c. 2100 BCE, Ur, Iraq. Ur-Nammu raised a mud-brick mountain for Nanna the moon god, with baked-brick armour against the rain.
Etemenanki, the Tower of Babel: a world wonder of c. 610 BCE (World Wonder · Babylon) — c. 610 BCE, Babylon. Etemenanki — “temple of the foundation of heaven and earth” — was Marduk’s seven-stage ziggurat, the historical core of
Walls of Babylon: a world wonder of c. 575 BCE (World Wonder · Babylon) — c. 575 BCE, Babylon. Greek lists sometimes swapped the walls for the gardens: a double circuit of baked brick so wide that chariots could pa
Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu: a world wonder of c. 1415 BCE (World Wonder · Aqar Quf, Iraq) — c. 1415 BCE, Aqar Quf, Iraq. A Kassite capital’s ziggurat still juts over the Baghdad plain like a eroded factory chimney of brick.
Palace of Sargon at Khorsabad: a world wonder of c. 706 BCE (World Wonder · Dur-Sharrukin) — c. 706 BCE, Dur-Sharrukin. Sargon II founded a new Assyrian capital and wrapped his palace in lamassu, glazed brick, and reliefs of a world
Southwest Palace of Nineveh: a world wonder of c. 700 BCE (World Wonder · Nineveh) — c. 700 BCE, Nineveh. Sennacherib called it “the Palace Without Rival” and lined it with reliefs of Lachish, canals, and a king who moved riv
Library of Ashurbanipal: a world wonder of c. 650 BCE (World Wonder · Nineveh) — c. 650 BCE, Nineveh. Thirty thousand tablets and fragments — omens, epics, royal letters — were the first systematically collected library w
Lamassu of Dur-Sharrukin: a world wonder of c. 710 BCE (World Wonder · Khorsabad) — c. 710 BCE, Khorsabad. Human-headed winged bulls stood in gateways with five legs so they looked complete both in front and in profile.
White Temple of Uruk: a world wonder of c. 3510 BCE (World Wonder · Uruk, Iraq) — c. 3510 BCE, Uruk, Iraq. On the Anu ziggurat, a whitewashed shrine sat above the first true city, when writing and the temple economy were b

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