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Babylon
Babylon was a
city-state of ancient
Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in
present-day
Al Hillah,
Babil Province,
Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of
Baghdad. All that remains of the original
ancient famed city of Babylon today is a mound, or
tell, of broken mud-brick buildings and debris
in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the
Tigris and
Euphrates rivers, in Iraq. Although it has been
reconstructed, historical resources inform us that
Babylon was at first a small town, that had sprung
up by the beginning of the third millennium
BC (the dawn of the dynasties). The town
flourished and attained prominence and political
repute with the rise of the
First Babylonian Dynasty. It was the "holy city"
of
Babylonia by approximately 2300 BC, and the seat
of the
Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 BC. The
Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Source: Wikipedia
