بورسیپا
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Borsippa
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Birs Nimrud
- Ancient site.map_type
- Iraq
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.map_size
- 200
- Ancient site.location
- Babylon Governorate, Iraq
- Ancient site.type
- settlement
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1854, 1879-1881, 1902, 1980-2003
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Hormuzd Rassam, Robert Koldewey, Helga Piesl-Trenkwalder, Wilfred Allinger-Csollich
- Ancient site.condition
- Ruined
- Ancient site.ownership
- Public
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Seleucid Empire
- Located in
- Babylonia
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
- Ruins of the ziggurat and temple of the god Nabu at Borsippa, Babel Governorate, Iraq. 6th century BC.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Borsippa
- time period
- ancient Near East
- culture
- Babylonia
- different from
- Nimrud
- P8168
- Dąbie
- native label
- Barzipa
Sources (3)
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Gallery (2)
On the map
3 mapped locations