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<< Image Pages >> Borsippa - Ancient Village or Settlement in Iraq

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Multi-periodSite Name: Borsippa Alternative Name: Birs Nimrud
Country: Iraq
NOTE: This site is 10.085 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Baghdad  Nearest Village: Birs Nimrud
Latitude: 32.391997N  Longitude: 44.341688E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Borsippa submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing of the site, from "History of Egypt..." via archive.org Site in Iraq (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient city in Iraq

Borsippa was an ancient Mesopotamian city, 18 km southwest of Babylon, on the east side of the Euphrates. The ziggurat on the site is one of the surviving ziggurats in the best condition. Borsippa probably belonged to Babylon, and was probably never an independent city state. The local deity was "Nabu," or son of Marduk Babylon's, chief god of Babylon. A Nebuchadrezzar II's "Borsippa inscription" explains how he restored Nabu's Temple of the Seven Spheres. It would have been covered in bricks of lapis lazuli. Archeologists discovered that Nebuchadnezzar's ziggurat covered the remains of a smaller ziggurat from the second millennium BCE. Tday the ziggurat stands 55 meters tall and would have reached a height of 75 meters with seven terraces when it complete. Some cuneiform tablets and an inscribed foundation stone have been recovered. The site was being excavated since 1980 by an Austrian team, but is now threatened by looters. Many cuneiform tablets originating from Borsippa have turned up on the black market.
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