Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Borsippa, Mesopotamia, July 2013!

Iraq- Sulymania
Borsippa was an important ancient city of Sumer, built on both sides of a lake about 17.7 km
(11.0 mi) southwest of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates. The site of Borsippa is
in Babylon Province, Iraq and now called Birs Nimrud, the Arabs identifying the site with
Nimrod. The ziggurat, the Tongue Tower, today one of the most vividly identifiable surviving
ziggurats, is identified in the later Talmudic and Arabic culture with theTower of Babel,
although the Sumero-Akkadian builders of the Ziggurat in reality erected it as a religious edifice
in honour of the local god Nabu, called the son of Babylons Marduk, as would be
appropriate for Babylons lesser sister-city.

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A stamped brick, from Borsippa, Ziggurat of Nabu, Sumer, Mesopotamia.