The Lion of Babylon is an ancient Babylonian symbol. The Lion of Babylon symbolically represented the King of Babylon. The depiction is based on the Mesopotamian...
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Lion of Babylon is a stone sculpture, over 3,600 years old, that was found in the ancient city of Babylon, Iraq. Its discovery was first documented in...
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T-72 tanks in Iraqi service (redirect from Lion of Babylon tank)
established a factory to retrofit and repair T-72s, and started the Lion of Babylon project with the intent to assemble T-72s locally. In the 1970s and...
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(55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia. Its rulers...
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The Asiatic lion is a lion population of the subspecies Panthera leo leo. Until the 19th century, it occurred in Saudi Arabia, eastern Turkey, Iran, Mesopotamia...
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Nebuchadnezzar II in the 6th century BCE. The Lion of Babylon symbolized the power of the king and protection of the land against enemies, but was also invoked...
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The royal Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal is shown on a famous group of Assyrian palace reliefs from the North Palace of Nineveh that are now displayed in room...
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Ishtar Gate (redirect from Ishtar Gate of Babylon)
to the inner city of Babylon (in the area of present-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq). It was constructed c. 569 BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar...
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T-72 (category Cold War tanks of the Soviet Union)
M-84, and sold hundreds of them around the world during the 1980s. The Iraqis called their T-72 copies the "Lion of Babylon" (Asad Babil). These Iraqi...
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were lost to enemy fire. The Lion of Babylon (or Asad Babil) was a name given to what was a locally produced variant of the Soviet T-72 tank during the...
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