Babylon
UNESCO SitesHillah, Babil
Capital of Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.
Babylon was the centre of Mesopotamian civilisation for much of the second and first millennia BC. Its legendary walls, gates and ziggurat — the Etemenanki — shaped how the ancient world imagined a great city.
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