Neo-Babylonians and their Cities

Antonio Lombatti has spotted a report concerning the discovery of a Neo-Babylonian city.

An ancient archeological city dating back to the neo-Babylonian era was unearthed in Diwaniya, the province’s museum curator revealed, noting the ancient wide city comprised buildings of an advanced architectural nature. “The Babylonian city was discovered in the district of al-Shamiya, (33 km) west of Diwaniya, where 341 archeological pieces were found during the first stage of excavations that lasted for the month of February,” Muhammad Yahya Radi told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI). “The unearthed city is about eight donums (the Iraqi donum equals 2,000 square meters). The artifacts found included weights used by the ancient Babylonians. One of the weighing units was 30 kg, different from previously found granite duck-shaped units that did not exceed 10 kg,” said Radi. He said the archeological finds also included earthenware slabs and numbers of the neo-Babylonian era that experts failed to decipher.

I presume they mean numbers of textual artifacts that they have as yet failed to decipher. Interesting stuff though- as all such discoveries are.