A look around Babylon at the British Museum
For 2,000 years the myth of Babylon has haunted the European imagination and inspired artists, writers and philosophers. A new exhibition at the British Museum in London explores the Babylon of our imaginations alongside artefacts from ancient Mesopotamia to build up a picture of one of the greatest cities of antiquity. Read Jonathan Jones's review of the exhibition here and take a look around, before the show opens on November 13 2008
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View of the British Museum's exhibition showing glazed brick reliefs of lions and a model of ancient Babylon
Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
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Glazed brick relief showing a lion
Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
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Dragon relief, 6th century BC, glazed brick panel
Photograph: © Olaf M Teßmer / SMB-Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin
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Scale model of the ziggurat Etemenanki. Ziggurats were built as stairways to heaven
Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
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A view of various paintings of the Tower of Babel. The Biblical story has inspired artists from Brueghel to Rembrandt
Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
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The Tower of Babel; 1595, oil on panel by Lucas van Valckenborch
Photograph: © Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz
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Fall of the Tower of Babel, 1547, etching by Cornelis Anthonisz
Photograph: © The Trustees of the British Museum
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A modern interpretation of the tower by artist Michael Lassel. Tower of Babel/Der Turm Babel, 2001, oil on canvas
Photograph: © Michael Lassel
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Babel Revisited, 2004, by Julee Holcombe
Photograph: © Julee Holcombe / Conner Contemporary Art
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Barbed wire surrounding the archaeological site of Babylon, about 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq. The British Museum protested at the use of the site as a military base
Photograph: Karim Kadim/AP
