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Where in the world
Iraq
The site
Babylon rises from the lower Euphrates in southern Mesopotamia, near modern Hillah in Iraq, the great Babylonian city that served as the cultural and political heart of Akkadian-speaking Babylonia. Its rulers founded two mighty empires here, the Old Babylonian and the later Neo-Babylonian, its ziggurats and city walls anchoring one of the most important urban centres of the ancient Near East. It endured for over two millennia before fading in the Hellenistic age.
Field notes
- civilizations
- Babylonian
- types
- City
- built
- 1,894 BCE
- occupied
- 2,300 BCE — 1 CE
- country
- Iraq
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Notable finds
Renowned pieces unearthed at Babylon — and where they are today
Figures of this place
Laid to rest, born or died at Babylon
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Ammi-Saduqaborn here16th or 17th century BC king of BabylonK✶
Kidinnuborn hereBabylonian astronomer, possible creator of Babylonian System B ephemeridesN✶
Naburimannuborn hereancient astronomer and mathematicianPictured through the ages
Artworks that portray Babylon
Chronicle
What happened at Babylon
- 709 BCEBattle of Babylon
- 688 BCESiege of Babylon
- 649 BCESiege of Babylon
- 538 BCEFall of Babylon
- 322 BCEPartition of Babylon
- 309 BCESecond Siege of Babylon
