Nebuchadnezzar II

Biography

Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem 597 and destroyed it 586, the Temple, the Babylonian captivity. The Ishtar Gate, the Processional Way, blue glazed dragons, in Berlin Pergamon. The Hanging Gardens, for his Median wife homesick for mountains, if real, locations debated. The Daniel furnace and madness legends, the pride that ate grass. Babylon, the largest city on earth, Daniel's head of gold, fell to Cyrus within a generation.