Click2Biography - Code of Hammurabi - Chapter 8

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>CODE OF HAMMURABI</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 8 - BABYLON AFTER HAMMURABI</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Babylon was not powerful again until many centuries had passed. The New Babylonian Empire, whose best-known king was Nebuchadnezzar II, (reigned 605-562 BC) existed more than a thousand years later. It was Nebuchadnezzar who saw the handwriting on the wall, (interpreted by Daniel). And it was Nebuchadnezzar who created one of the seven wonders of the ancient world: the <a href="http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/Gallery/gardens_color.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Hanging Gardens of Babylon</b></a>. (This image is an artist's conception, based on ancient writings.)</p> <p align="justify">Not until Nebuchadnezzar was king did Babylon reach the height of her <a href="http://192.215.101.10/ArtsEdNet/Images/X/dragon-xl.jpeg" target="_blank"><b>wealth</b></a> and glory. The city was a major metropolis. Scholars speculate, though, whether the Hanging Gardens (built for Nebuchadnezzar's wife) ever really existed. Recent excavations at the ancient site tend to support the ancient claim. The <a href="http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/Gallery/gardens_site.jpg" target="_blank"><b>palace walls</b></a> have been located plus archaeologists have found additional walls near the river. Here are drawings which depict how the palace, the <a href="http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/Gallery/gardens_bw1.jpg" target="_blank"><b>terraced gardens</b></a> and the <a href="http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/Gallery/gardens_bw2.jpg" target="_blank"><b>city</b></a> probably looked at the height of Babylonian power.</p> <p align="justify">But it is not the Hanging Gardens that carry significance today. It is the Code of Hammurabi, written 3700 years ago, that people throughout the world still study. And it is Hammurabi himself who - to use his words - is remembered because he acted "like a real father to his people...[who] has established prosperity...and (gave) good <a ; target="_blank" href="http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/pmartin/hammurabi/hammurabi_situation_index.htm"><b>government</b></a> to the land."</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="code_hammurabi_ch7.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="code_hammurabi_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="code_hammurabi_ch9.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>