Babylon

Babylon ( ) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 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 in antiquity, the 19th–16th century BC Old Babylonian Empire, and the 7th–6th century BC Neo-Babylonian Empire. Babylon was also used as a regional capital of other empires, such as the Achaemenid Empire. Babylon was one of the most important urban centres of the ancient Near East, unti

biblical pericope about hubris and the origin of languages

one of the seven wonders of ancient world

Babylonian code of law or conduct

thumb|upright=1.1|The Destruction of Leviathan by Gustave Doré (1865) thumb|upright=1.4|The circular salt sea Tiamat (green) and sphere of cosmic freshwater ocean [[Abzu are pre-existent deities in Sumerian myths, from whose mating Earth was created, so the sketch's side view shows the same as Babylon's map. Referring to the Atra-Hasis epic, Abzu is the celestial reservoir from which an organisation of younger gods triggers the Flood in order to consume humanity – also a source for the dangerous cosmic sea monster Leviathan.]]

eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon

trade route throughout the middle east

New Testament symbol

thumb|Reconstruction of Etemenanki, based on Schmid Etemenanki () was a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in the ancient city of Babylon. It now exists only in ruins, located about south of Baghdad, Iraq. Many scholars have identified Etemenanki as the ziggurat for the biblical account of the Tower of Babel.

two angels mentioned in the Qur'an

1966 film by John Huston

ancient astronomy

legendary tunnel under the river Euprhates

ancient Mesopotamian title

death at age 32

wall built to the north of Babylon

title from ancient Mesopotamia

museum in Ur, thought to be the first by some historians

Royal title in Ancient Mesopotamia

archaeological artifacts

ancient Babylonian symbol