File talk:Nebgold.jpg

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This is the source of a lot of confusion on the web[edit]

For some reason this image was made into a black and white drawing of the mirror image, and around 2008 when uploaded to the German Wikipedia, was virally passed on as an authentic image from the Babylonian time.

The actual Nebuchadnezzar II, who it is supposedly depicting, actually had a long beard and a longer nose, with sunken eyes as shown on the actual image here: . Pashute (talk) 20:28, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]