The walls of Babylon

In Babylon there is no single famous walls but there were two walls in babylon to fortify the city of babylon. The first layer of walls was just your typical run of the mill big thick wall. Then Nebuchadnezzar II (king of  babylon at the time) constructed a second wall to make babylon an impenetrable fortress. all enemies were awestruck when they saw it and so were the inhabitants. the wall was necessary to protect the citizens of babylon from other rulers like alexander the great. However after Nebuchadnezzar's death Alexander the great and Cyrus the great successfully laid siege to babylon and over took it. Over the years the walls of babylon have decayed and have been weathered away all that remains of it nowadays is scattered segments of walls and bricks.

The walls height and thickness varied around the wall. On the side of the euphrates the wall was 8-10 meters thick then the wall near the city centre was 17.5 meters thick and the outer wall was 27-30 meters thick and the height was mostly 30 meters high.