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Wikipedia: Babylon was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a mound, or tell, of broken mud-brick buildings and debris in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in Iraq. Although it has been reconstructed, historical resources inform us that Babylon was at first a small town, that had sprung up by the beginning of the third millennium BC (the dawn of the dynasties).
![[Panoramic view over the ancient city of Babylon, located 85 kilometers south of Baghdad]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/The_historical_city_of_Babylon_s.jpg "Panoramic view over the ancient city of Babylon, located 85 kilometers south of Baghdad")
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![[US Marines in front of the rebuilt ruins of Babylon, 2003.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Babylon_Ruins_Marines_s.jpg "US Marines in front of the rebuilt ruins of Babylon, 2003.")
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![[Babylon in 1932]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Babylon_2C_1932_s.jpg "Babylon in 1932")
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![[Detail of the Ishtar Gate]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Babylon_relief_s.jpg "Detail of the Ishtar Gate")
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