Babylon, Ancient city, Iraq

Babylon, Ancient city, Iraq: The city of Babylon appears in both Hebrew and Christian scriptures.. The oldest recorded civilization in the world is the Mesopotamia civilization.. Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres 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
#Ancient city
#Neo-Babylonian Empire
#Mesopotamia civilization
#southern Mesopotamia
#Hillah
#Babil Governorate
#Iraq
#Asia