Hi all,

I think the portraits of Dareios of Persia and Hammurabi of Babylonia are mixed up with each other. You can see the Ishtar Gate of Babylon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate) in the background of Dareios' Portrait although it'd suit much better to Hammurabi of Babylonia, wouldn't it?

(However, Hammurabi also couldn't stand in front of the Ishtar Gate - he lived more than 1000 years before the gate was built. Dareios could theoretically have stood in front of it - but since I heard that they already mixed up the portraits of the Chinese and the Mongolian Emperor earlier this might be the case here, too.)

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If you look closely you will see that both stand in front of the Ishtar gate:
Hammurabi just shows a more zoomed out picture of it (actually a reconstruction of Babylon's city walls with the decorations found at the ishtar gate) in the background while Darius stands closer to one of its pillars :)

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That's funny - obviously they changed the background of Hammurabi's portrait because on

http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/beyondthesword/

you can see Hammurabi with that kind of blue tiled city walls or whatever and in the actual game (BtS, 3.03) he's got a different backround - a city-like structure with some arches. I just noticed the actual background first - so that's why I wondered.

But still - the Persian pEmperor Darius I. doesn't match so well with the Babylonian Ishtar Gate as background...

Actually what I was talking about was the image on the official website - the one in game is indeed different - and non descript. As for the actual leaderheads: if you look at the scarce number of depictions of both they are probably as intended. And since Babylon was ruled by Persia during Darius' rule and the Ishtar gate was standing at that time it is not even too far off historically...

on the website, Hammurabi is standing in fornt of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon