| Go south to Sumerian and Babylonian sites, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Borsippar, Nippur, Uruk, Ur, Eridu. |
| From beneath mounds of sand and debris, Babylon and Nineveh were exposed to view together with whole libraries of clay cuneiform tablets. |
| Ancient Babylon, with its glistening towers and lavish horticultural cascades, must once have inspired similar reverential whispers. |
| At Babylon there is a famous basalt statue of a man being mauled by a lion. |
| All people should have dreadlocks because nobody has ever said to wash your hair but Babylon. |
| The Babylon acted swiftly and managed to find one of the suspects by fingerprinting. |