According to the historian Diodorus Siculus, this fortress goes back to the nineteenth century , when the pharaoh of the 12th dynasty , Sesostris,
According to the historian Diodorus Siculus, this fortress goes back to the nineteenth century , when the pharaoh of the 12th dynasty , Sesostris, after defeating the Babylonians at the end of an especially cruel war, took the prisoners into Egypt to make slaves of them. But the prisoners rebelled and built fortifications to defend the area where they resided, which from then on was named Babylon. Taken @Cairo, Egypt
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