TEHRAN-- A historic statue of the ancient city of Babylon in Iraq has been presented to the guv of the western Iranian province of Ilam, IRNA reported on Saturday.In a meeting on Thursday, Hussein Falih, the director of the governmental Babel Antiques Organization, presented the historic statue to the guv of Ilam, Hassan Bahramnia, the report added.Following the meeting, the Iranian official went to the Babylon provinces tourism facilities and signed a memorandum of comprehending developing cooperation to establish tourist in between the 2 provinces.Ruled by Hammurabi, brought back by Nebuchadrezzar, and conquered by Cyrus the Great, Babylon is located in the heart of Mesopotamia, in between the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris some 97 kilometers south of Baghdad.It was the capital of southern Mesopotamia (Babylonia) from the early 2nd millennium to the early 1st millennium BC and the capital of the Neo-Babylonian (Chaldean) empire in the 7th and 6th centuries BC when it was at the height of its elegance.
IAccording to Britannica, when the Persian Achaemenid dynasty under Cyrus II attacked in 539 BC, the capital fell almost without resistance.Under the Persians, Babylon maintained most of its organizations, became the capital of the richest satrapy in the empire, and was, according to the 5th-century-BC Greek historian Herodotus, the worlds most remarkable city.Home to practically half of Irans UNESCO websites, western Iran is a land of hospitable people, wild extremes, and wilder history, and it might be an independent travelers experience play ground.
The region likewise saw the fluctuate of lots of terrific empires when surrounding Mesopotamia, Ottoman Turkey, and Czarist Russia.From the fecund Caspian coast to the stark, mountainous northern borders, and the collapsing desert ruins of the southern plains, the region hosts whatever from paddy fields to blizzards to Persian gardens.ABU/ AM