Where is ancient Babylon?

Babylon is located in the Mesopotamian plain, roughly in today's Iraq. Around 3000 BC, people here established a country, and by the 8th century BC/kloc-0, the kingdom of Babylon appeared here. "Mesopotamia" is an ancient Greek word, which means "the place between the two rivers", so it is also called the basin of the two rivers. These two rivers refer to the Euphrates River and the Tigris River.

Babylon is a world-famous ancient city site and one of the birthplaces of human civilization. It is located 90 kilometers south of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, on the right bank of the Euphrates River. Founded in more than 2350 BC, it is the birthplace of human civilization, which is as famous as ancient China, India and Egypt.

Babylon, which means "Camino Cardo", is located in the transportation hub. Camino Cardo has been expanding and has become an important town in the Euphrates and gladys rivers. From 2000 BC to 1000 BC, it was the most prosperous political, economic, commercial and cultural center in West Asia, and was also the capital of the kingdom of Babylon and the new kingdom of Babylon.

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In order to develop tourism, 1978, the Iraqi government formulated and implemented a plan to build Babylonian ruins. Some walls and buildings were copied on the ruins, and a museum was built in the city to display the unearthed Babylonian cultural relics.

Among them, a replica of a black flashing green stone tablet more than 2 meters high is the most precious in Judah. The upper part of the monument is an exquisite relief engraved with the scene where the sun god awarded Hammurabi the title, and the lower part is the full text of code of hammurabi recorded in cuneiform.

The original stone tablet of the world's first code was made under the leadership of King Hammurabi of Babylon (about BC 1792-BC 1750) and is now kept in the Louvre Museum in France.

In addition, the Iraqi government rebuilt the Nimmak Temple and the Hanging Garden on the ruins of Babylon and Baghdad, and restored the pale blue wall of a new ancient city with a height of several tens of meters, thus recreating the charm of the old city.

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