This inscription, made in the name of Tiglath-pileser I, a king of Assyria, records the conquest of Babylon. Like no other city, its history has become bound up with legend." write researchers Irving Finkel and Michael Seymour in the book "Babylon" (Oxford University Press, 2008). "Babylon, in all its manifestations, is at once remote to us and all around us. Ancient Babylonian records are still used by modern-day astronomers to study how the rotation of the Earth has changed. Among their many accomplishments, they developed trigonometry, used mathematical models to track the planet Jupiter and developed methods of tracking time that are still used today. The ancient scientists who lived in the city made important discoveries in mathematics, physics and astronomy. Another great accomplishment, if the ancient stories are true, is the construction of the Hanging Gardens, a wonder of the ancient world, which some believe was built by the biblical king Nebuchadnezzar II. One of its early rulers, Hammurabi, created a harsh system of laws, while in later times the Babylonian language would be used across the Middle East as a way of communicating across borders.
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