Babylon is the legendary and Babylon is historical. Belyavsky V.

Babylon... Usually this name is associated with the Babylonian tower, Babylonian crowds, mixing languages, hanging gardens of Semiramida, king of Nebuchadneosor, Babylonian capture, feast of Valtasar and the famous words “mines, mines, flowing, Padarsin”, symbolizing the inevitability of fate and the fear of the earth greatness. We heard about all this at school, read and read in books, magazines and newspapers, often we say ourselves. And why? Babylon... Why, this is an exotic, dense antiquity, confused with a fairy tale! Nevertheless, there is no man who would not know anything about Babylon and himself would not remember the Babylonian puff, understanding by this expression not so much the construction of the Babylonian tower as the greatest disorder. Babylon literally entered our flesh and blood. And what was he really? And was there a notorious Babylonian polling or all this fiction? This is what the book proposed to readers is told about this. It will not be about Babylon in general, but about Babylon of the era of crowds, when the Nebuchadnezzar lived and feasted Valtasar, about the events of twenty -fifth prescription.