Babylon,

Babylon was right about... right about there.

My administration will release us from our spiritual Babylon.

And Babylon has kind of kept the tradition of Sumeria.

Meanwhile, back in Babylon, things had not been going well.

Maybe the soil of ancient Babylon. It staggers the imagination.

This is a reconstruction of ancient Babylon, and this is Tenochtitlan.

Cyrus, king of the Persians, has entered Babylon without a fight the great empire of Babylon, which ran from central southern Iraq to the Mediterranean, falls to Cyrus.

Babylon declines, falls into ruins, and all the traces of the great Babylonian empire are lost until 1879 when the cylinder is discovered by a British Museum exhibition digging in Babylon.

Cyrus, king of the Persians, entered Babylon and the whole regime of Belshazzar fell.

Ancient Babylon, ancient Egypt. All that time, everything that you ever learn about in history.

And the great gold vessels of the temple in Jerusalem had been taken to Babylon.

But kind of the major contributions to Algebra we saw it here in Babylon 2000 years ago.

Nebuchadnezzar who'd conquered Israel, sacked Jerusalem and captured the people and taken the Jews back to Babylon.

Marduk takes Cyrus by the hand, calls him to shepherd his people and gives him the rule of Babylon.

This is the decree, this object is the evidence for the fact that the Jews, after the exile in Babylon, the years they'd spent sitting by the waters of Babylon, weeping when they remembered Jerusalem, those Jews were allowed to go home.

But our first records of people really exploring the ideas that are hit upon in Algebra come from ancient Babylon, around 2000 years before the common era, before Christ.

He goes on to say that, having conquered Babylon, he will at once let all the peoples that the Babylonians Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar have captured and enslaved go free.

Many of the villages of Mesopotamia are built of second hand bricks of a very good quality, obtained from the ruins of Babylon, and the cement on them is older and probably harder still.

In ringing Babylonian it was written in Babylonian he says, I am Cyrus, king of all the universe, the great king, the powerful king, king of Babylon, king of the four quarters of the world.

But, every moment of human history, from the Stone Age to the Information Age, from Sumer and Babylon to the iPod and celebrity gossip, they've all been carried out every book that you've read, every poem, every laugh, every tear they've all happened here.

This is what's really complicated, that there were people living in places like the Grand Canyon, cooperating with each other, or on the savannahs of Africa, or on the frozen shores of Alaska, and then some of these villages grew into the mighty cities of Babylon, and Rome, and Tenochtitlan.