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Mesopotamian lions and flowers decorated the processional street - Ishtar Gate - Babylon

19th Century BC to 539 BC

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Babylon

Babylon was the capital city of Babylon, a kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia, between the 18th and 6th centuries BC. It was built along the left and right banks of the Euphrates river with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods.


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