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Multi-periodSite Name: Borsippa Alternative Name: Birs NimrudCountry: 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:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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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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