Etemenanki
thumb|Reconstruction of Etemenanki, based on Schmid Etemenanki () was a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in the ancient city of Babylon. It now exists only in ruins, located about south of Baghdad, Iraq. Many scholars have identified Etemenanki as the ziggurat for the biblical account of the Tower of Babel.
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- Construction
- Descriptions
- Final demolition
- Modern hypotheses regarding height
- In popular culture
- Image gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
thumb|Reconstruction of Etemenanki, based on Schmid Etemenanki () was a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in the ancient city of Babylon. It now exists only in ruins, located about south of Baghdad, Iraq. Many scholars have identified Etemenanki as the ziggurat for the biblical account of the Tower of Babel.
==Construction== It is unclear when Etemenanki was originally constructed. Andrew R. George says that it was constructed sometime between the 14th and the 9th century BCE. He argues as follows: