Did Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon Actually Exist? #BiblicalArchaeology #History

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[00:00:00]By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept. Those words from Psalm 137 [music] were written by real people exiled to a real city. And that city has been excavated. [music] Babylon sits roughly 90 km south of Baghdad on the Euphrates, occupied continuously [music] since the third millennium BC.

[00:00:20]In 1899, German archaeologist Robert Koldewey began 18 [music] consecutive seasons of excavation. The first scientific stratigraphy of a Mesopotamian He traced inner city walls running 8 km in circuit, the Processional Way, [music] three royal palaces, and the foundation of Etemenanki, Marduk's seven-stage ziggurat, the structure broadly [music] corresponding to the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. The Ishtar Gate's 575 glazed brick [music] reliefs, dragons and bulls, were dismantled and shipped to Berlin between 1902 and 1914.

[00:00:58]Reconstructed [music] in 1930, they remain in the Vorderasiatisches Museum today.

[00:01:04]>> [music] >> This is the city of the captivity.

[00:01:06]Second Kings 24 and 25 records Nebuchadnezzar's [music] deportations of Judah in 597 and 586 BC. Daniel 1 places the prophet in the royal court. Daniel 5 narrates Belshazzar's feast on the night Babylon fell to Medo-Persian [music] forces in 539 BC. The Hanging Gardens have never been securely identified at the site. Their location remains genuinely disputed.

[00:01:34]Babylon is not a symbol. It is an address. [music]