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Wonder #2 History Clue

A king named Nebuchadnezzar II ruled over the largest city in ancient Mesopotamia that housed this Wonder during the time it was built. The civilization that made this Wonder wrote its history in cuneiform, a written language made up of straight lines carved in stone.

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