In contrast to our contemporary admiration for lions, the Babylonians, coexisting with these formidable beasts, regarded them with fear ... The Babylonians saw clay as a medium akin to the creation of life by birth goddesses, a representation of primal creativity ... Babylonian lions....
The East SemiticAkkadians and Babylonians were in the area for roughly 3,000 years already ...BabylonianAstrology ... This dynasty refers to the Neo-BabylonianEmpire, and the assumption that the dynasty’s founder, Nabopolassar, was of Chaldean origins ... This event is known as the BabylonianCaptivity, during which many Jews were exiled to Babylon....