Ancient Babylon archaeological site

Ancient Babylon is one of the most important and ancient cities of the Near East and the capital of the ancient Babylonian state, in southern Mesopotamia, 85 km south of present day Baghdad. It was the center of Akkadian language and Babylonian power and flourished until the end of the Hellenistic period. Babylon was founded by the ancient Babylonian Empire in the 19th-16th centuries BC. The oldes…