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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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Babylon

Baghdad & Central Iraq

Babylon

The legendary city of Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where the foundations of the ancient world still stand.

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