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2 exhibits feature art from Babylon

They came, they conquered, they crushed. Time and again over the centuries, new rulers imposed their own might and myths alike on Babylon, one of the most powerful, mystical and elusive of ancient cities.

Two exhibitions — one at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, the other at London’s British Museum — provide new insights into the power and reach of ancient Babylon, while proving rather more coy in commenting on the sensitivities of the more contemporary events for which their two countries were instrumental.

Partly perhaps for practical and logistical reasons, the Met’s Beyond Babylon (through 15 March) does precisely as the title suggests, highlighting the extraordinary riches and reach of Nebuchadnezzar’s rule 2,500 years ago everywhere but in the city, through the lens of its interconnections with Egypt, Syria and the Mediterranean.
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