For its hanging gardens, palaces, temples, and walls, the latter of which are said to have been three hundred and fifty feet high, and so broad that six chariots could go abreast upon them. The city was so strongly fortified, both by nature and art, as to be thought impregnable.
Fortified, defended.
Impregnable, incapable of being taken or destroyed by an enemy.
By whom was it destroyed, and when?
By Cyrus, 538 years before the birth of Christ, just fifty years after Nabuchodonosor had destroyed the city of Jerusalem and its temple.
Who was Cyrus?
The founder of the Persian Empire.
Who was Nabuchodonosor?
The King of Babylon.
What was the Pantheon?