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There are 55 entries with the keyword Babylon. Abraham and Christ (1) Abraham traced his lineage to Babylonian giants (1) Akkadian in a Talmudic joke (1) Alexander entering Babylon (1) Baβri = Babylon in Avesta (1) Babylon = birthplace of Mani (1) Babylon compared to Rome (1) Babylon founded by giants (1) Babylon in a Pahlavi text (1) Babylon mentioned by Pindar (1) Babylonia = Assyria (2) Babylonia = Assyria (3) Babylonia = part of Assyria (1) Babylonian substitute king festival (1) Bel's temple Etemenanki in Babylon (1) Belus and the sea (1) Berossus on Nebuchadnezzar (2) The building of Babylon (1) The building of Babylon (2) Curtius' description of Babylon (1) Curtius' description of Babylon (2) Curtius' description of Babylon (4) A custom relating to healing (1) Ethnic Greeks in high administrative positions in Babylon (1) The first idol venerated (1) Graeco-Babylonian Tablets (1) Herodotus' description of Babylon (1) Herodotus' description of Babylon (2) Herodotus on the Persian empire (1) Herodotus on the walling of Babylon (1) al-Himyari's description of Babylon (1) Iranians offering in Esagil (1) Marduk's temple in Babylon (1) Marduk's temple in the first century Babylon (1) Nebuchadnezzar II (1) Nimrod the founder of Babylon (1) Of the people rescued from the Flood (1) The palace of Kay Kaus (1) A popular memory of Cyrus' besieging Babylon (1) The procession of Babylonian king (1) Rome and Babylon (1) Rome as the second Babylon (1) Rome as the second Babylon (2) Semiramis and the founding of Babylon (1) Semiramis and the founding of Babylon (2) Semiramis brought a stone (1) Semiramis built a bridge in Babylon (1) Semiramis built two palaces in Babylon (1) Semiramis built two palaces in Babylon (2) Semiramis built two palaces in Babylon (3) Semiramis built two palaces in Babylon (4) The temple of Bel in Babylon (1) Two judges of Babil (1) The two queens of Babylon (1) The walling of Babylon (1)
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