Babylon
Babylon, whose ruins lie at modern Hillah in Iraq, about 85 km south of Baghdad, was the great city on the Euphrates that gave its name to Babylonia. Hammurabi made it his capital, and it was capital again under the Neo-Babylonian kings, when Nebuchadnezzar II rebuilt it. After his capture of Jerusalem in 587 BCE many Judeans were deported there, the exile remembered in the Hebrew Bible, and Babylonia remained a major centre of Jewish life for centuries. Cyrus of Persia took the city in 539 BCE. In the early third century BCE the priest Berossus wrote a Greek history of Babylonia. The site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site; the pin marks the excavated city.
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