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The Tower of Babel

The most distinctive type of Babylonian building was the ziggurat, a towerlike temple, built in stages and topped by a religious shrine. Though the ziggurat was first developed by the Sumerians, the Babylonians carried on the tradition. The most famous ziggurat is the Tower of Babel mentioned in the bible. The god of the Babylonians was Marduk, whose cult spread with the growth of the Babylonian Empire. The capital of Babylonia was the city of Babylon, situated near the Euphrates River where it approaches the Tigris River, not far from present-day Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.