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Babylon
Babylon, Iraq, was a significant city in ancient Mesopotamia, in the fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The city was built upon the Euphrates and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods. Babylon was originally a small Semitic Akkadian city dating from the period of the Akkadian Empire c. 2300 BC. Babylon was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.
The site is a UNESCO World Heritage site with the official name, Babylon.
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by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 36 m
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Babylon
World Heritage Site
Date of Inscription
2019
Third Millennium BC
Akkadian
Babylonia
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