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The Midland Journal
Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland
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The ancient Lion of Babylon statue overlooks the ruins of the once-mighty city in Mesopotamia. A joint Field Museum-Oxford expedition visited after excavating nearby Kish, the first post-flood city. Nearby sites include a possible Tower of Babel and Nebuchadnezzar's palace; the lion crushes a human figure.
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Babylon, Mesopotamia.—The Lion of Babylon still broods over the ruins of the once mighty city. Carved solidly in stone and resting heavily on its haunches, the beast gazes impassively on the remnants of the dead metropolis.
Members of the Field museum-Oxford university joint expedition visited the ruins at the conclusion of their season's work of excavating the neighboring city of Kish, near the Euphrates. Kish was the first city founded after the biblical flood, ancient inscriptions declare.
Near the lion is the great pyramid mound in Borsippa, in a suburb of Babylon. With its seven stages, this is said to be one of the possible sites of the tower of Babel mentioned in Genesis.
Also close to the ponderous leonine figure are the ruins of Dl-Kasr, said to have been the palace of Nebuchadnezzar, ruler when Babylon was at the summit of its glory.
Beneath the figure of the lion lies a human shape, whether man or woman no one knows, and none can tell the significance of the two except to suggest that the Lion of Babylon is crushing the rest of mankind.
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Babylon, Mesopotamia
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After The Biblical Flood
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The stone Lion of Babylon gazes over the ruins of the ancient city, visited by the Field museum-Oxford university expedition after excavating nearby Kish. Nearby are the pyramid mound of Borsippa, possibly the Tower of Babel, and the ruins of Dl-Kasr, Nebuchadnezzar's palace. The lion rests on a human figure, suggesting it crushes mankind.