A vast panoramic view of Babylon at its height during the Neo-Babylonian Empire around 600 BCE, seen from an elevated vantage point overlooking the Euphrates River. Massive mudbrick walls and fortifications encircle the city, with the Ishtar Gate visible along a processional avenue decorated with deep blue glazed bricks. Inside the city, wide streets lead past temples, palaces, and stepped ziggurats, including the towering Etemenanki rising above the skyline. Lush gardens, canals, and cultivated plots are interwoven throughout the city, fed by irrigation from the Euphrates. People move through the streets in linen garments and robes, merchants carry goods, priests walk toward temple precincts, and boats glide along the river. Palm trees, date groves, and fertile floodplains stretch into the distance under a hazy Mesopotamian sky. Ultra-wide panoramic composition, realistic scale, historically grounded reconstruction, cinematic lighting. Mehr sehen