Al-Hillah fica na margem do Eufrates, frente à antiga Babilónia. durante o império otomano, foram estes que construíram a primeira escola nesta cidade. Hillah é uma cidade iraquiana, conhecida antes da guerra por ser uma cidade da cultura (capital da cultura iraquiana em 2008). foi em parte por cima das ruínas da antiga Babilónia que Saddam construiu um palácio. aqui perto foi descoberta uma vala comum das vítimas do ditador. também foi no palácio de Saddam, sobre as ruínas antigas, que a 1ª divisão dos marines se estabeleceu, causando ainda mais danos nos restos de uma das sete maravilhas.
e a vista contrária:
todos os males da antiga cidade num relatório da Unesco, de 2009.
uma exposição virtual no site do Louvre.
"Even after Sumerian had become a dead language, it was long used for certain legal, religious, and royal documents. Sumerian literature was thought to be the only one worth learning and writing. Nevertheless, during the first third of the second millennium BC Sumerian was steadily abandoned as texts were written in Akkadian, the common language of the day. Students, however, continued to study many Sumerian works in which Gilgamesh was the hero.
Among the Akkadian poetry that has survived, many poems concern the gods in one way or another—religious texts or adventure tales of the gods recounting their love affairs, internal conflicts, and relationships with humankind. The longest and richest mythological text is the “Myth of Atrahasis” (the “All-Wise”), which tells the tale of the creation of humans: the gods had originally been obliged to toil, but they went on strike, and humans were created to replace them as workers at their service. But the noise of humans bothered the great god Enlil, who sent the Flood to eliminate them (this part of the tale also is found on the eleventh tablet of the epic of Gilgamesh and serves as the source of the account in Genesis)."
'só a morte o derrotou', a morte de Alexandre Magno no palácio de Nebuchadnezzar II, na Babilónia.
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