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Babylon

Babylon (/ˈbæbɪlɒn/ BAB-il-on) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (53 miles) south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia. Its rulers established two important empires…

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Owner
Public
Location
Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq
Abandoned
c. 1000 AD
Archaeologists
Hormuzd Rassam, Robert Koldewey, Taha Baqir, recent Iraqi Assyriologist
Area
9 km2 (3.5 sq mi)
Built
c. 2200 BC

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related to Further reading · 102
Babylon → Abbild, Abd, Abdul-Razzak, AD, Agade, Ahmed Mohammed, Al-Assadi, Al-Maabid Area, Albemarle Street, Ali, Alwan, Application, Arabic, Arts, Awwad Abdul-Kareem, Babylon Archaeological City, Babylonian Religion, Babylon’s, Bagdad, BC
related to Sources · 63
Babylon → Ailsa Campbell, Ancient City, BC, Berlin, Berlin/Boston, Berossus, Bible, Boston, British Museum, Cancik-Kirschbaum, Cleitarchus, Ctesias, De Gruyter, Doctoral, Economic Survey, English, Ess, Eva, Exhibition, Finkel
related to External links · 46
Babylon → Amin, Ancient Governance, Ancient History Et Cetera, ANE Today, Archaeology, Archived, Art, Associated Press, Babylon Satellite ObservationSite Photographs, BabylonBeyond Babylon, BBCIraq Image, Damage Assessment, Experts, First Millennium BCE Babylon, Freie Universität BerlinBabylon, In Our Time, Iranian, Iraq, Issued, January
related to Old Babylonian period · 36
Babylon → According, Adab, Akshak, Amorite, Babylonia, Babylonian, Bad-tibira, BC, Both, Code, Ebla, Elam, Eridu, Eshnunna, First Babylonian, Girsu, Hammurabi, Hammurabi's, He, In
related to Archaeology · 29
Babylon → Alexander, Amran, Amran Ibn Ali, Babil, BC, Castle, Ea, Esagila, Etemenanki, Euphrates, Great, Hellenistic, Homera, Ishin-Aswad, It, Its, Kasr, Marduk, Merkes, Most
related to Renewed Persian rule · 27
Babylon → AD, Although, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyria, Christianity, Church, Coins, Early Muslim, East, East Syrian Rite, Euphrates, Examples, Gnostic Mandaean, Hadrian, However, Judaism's Babylonian Talmud, Mani, Manichaeism, Mesopotamia
related to Assyrian period · 26
Babylon → After, Arabs, Arakhtu, Ashurbanipal, Assyria, Assyrian, Babylonia, BC, Canaanites, Chaldeans, Consequently, During, Elam, Elamites, Esarhaddon, In, Marduk-apla-iddina II, Mesopotamia, Neo-Assyrian Empire, Nineveh
related to Names · 26
Babylon → Akkadian, Akkadian Bāb-ili, Archibald Sayce, Bab-Il, Babilla, Bābilim, DIG, Gelb, He, However, IR, Kan, Kan-dig, KI, Koine Greek Babylṓn, KÁ, Latin, Neo-Sumerian, RA, RAKI
related to Persian conquest · 26
Babylon → Babylon's, Babylonian, Babylonians, Battle, BC, Cyrus, Cyrus's, Dalley, During, Euphrates River, Following Archibald Henry Sayce's, Great, Greek, He, Herodotus, Herodotus's, Homer, However, In, Metal
related to Excavations · 25
Babylon → Al-Qurnah, Austen Henry Layard, Baghdad, British East India Company, British Residence, Captain Robert Mignan, Claudius Rich, Felix Thomas, Few, France, Fresnel, Fulgence Fresnel, In, Japanese, Julius Oppert, Le Havre, May, Much, Ottoman, Qurnah Disaster

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city bc empire ancient site mesopotamia babylonian century nebuchadnezzar akkadian became arabic assyrian name east also babylonia king neo-babylonian archaeological

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BabylonAbandonedc. 1000 AD1.00infobox
BabylonArchaeologistsHormuzd Rassam, Robert Koldewey, Taha Baqir, recent Iraqi Assyriologist1.00infobox
BabylonArea9 km2 (3.5 sq mi)1.00infobox
BabylonBuiltc. 2200 BC1.00infobox
BabylonConditionRuined1.00infobox
BabylonCriteriaCultural: (iii), (vi)1.00infobox
BabylonCulturesSumerian, Akkadian, Amorite, Kassite, Assyrian, Chaldean, Achaemenid, Hellenistic, Parthian, Sasanian, Islamic Caliphates1.00infobox
BabylonDesignated2019 (43rd session)1.00infobox
BabylonLocationHillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq1.00infobox
BabylonOfficial nameBabylon1.00infobox
BabylonOwnerPublic1.00infobox
BabylonPart ofBabylonia1.00infobox
BabylonReference no.2781.00infobox
BabylonRegionMesopotamia1.00infobox
BabylonRegionArab States1.00infobox
BabylonTypeSettlement1.00infobox
Babylonis aLatin representation of Koine Greek Babylṓn0.90text

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