Bible story began in Babylonia
all the kings that ruled the Babylonian, it is the name of Nebuchadnezzar that is remembered by many. For one, it was King Nebuchadnezzar who built the famous Hanging Garden of Babylon. Before King Nebuchadnezzar’s time, there was another famous Babylonian king. His name was Hammurabi, the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty reigning from 1792 BC to 1750 BC. Hammurabi is best remembered for having authored the so-called Law of Hammurabi. While this document was not the first Code of its kind during the ancient Babylonian Empire, it was the first law code that placed greater emphasis on the physical punishment of the perpetrator of the crime rather than compensating the victim. Moreover, the Code of Hammurabi was among the first law codes to introduce the “presumption of innocence” doctrine.
Today, the glory of Babylonia is a thing of the past. Only the archaeological excavations in modern Iraq, then known as ancient Mesopotamia, will confirm that thousands of years ago, the ancient peoples who settled in the fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (see Book of Genesis, Chapter 2, verses 10-14) – like the Sumerians, Akkadians, and later the Assyrians – had flourishing civilizations. Places like Babylon were built by the Akkadians around 2,225 B.C.. Babylonia, which was once the center of a dense population is now, for the most part, a desert of waste.
*** Modern Iraq which is now at the epicenter of world attention was likewise the center of greatest powers in the ancient world. No wonder Iraq has hundreds of thousands of archeological sites. About 10,000 sites have been identified but only a few have been excavated. Meaning that many of Iraq’s ancient material past still remains buried. The war in Iraq some years ago caused the destruction of Babylon’s history. Simply because many of the treasured archeological sites and priceless artifacts that have been buried for thousands of years have been destroyed. As someone said: “War can destroy more than a people, an army, or a leader. Culture, tradition and history also lie in the firing line.” Stated in other words: These excavations which contain secrets of the life and civilization of the peoples will be gone.