<Tr> <Th> Ownership </Th> <Td> Public </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Public access </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> </Tr> <P> Babylon (𒆍 𒀭 𒊏 𒆠KAN. DIĜIR. RA Akkadian: Bābili (m); Aramaic: בבל, Babel; Arabic: بَابِل ‎ ‎, Bābil; Hebrew: בָּבֶל ‎ ‎, Bavel) was a key kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia . The city was built on the Euphrates river and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods . Babylon was originally a small Akkadian city dating from the period of the Akkadian Empire c. 2300 BC . </P> <P> The town became an independent city - state with the rise of the First Amorite Babylonian Dynasty in the nineteenth century BC . After the Amorite king Hammurabi created a short - lived empire in the 18th century BC, southern Mesopotamia became known as Babylonia and Babylon eclipsed Nippur as its holy city . The empire waned under Hammurabi's son Samsu - iluna and Babylon spent long periods under Assyrian, Kassite and Elamite domination . After being destroyed and then rebuilt by the Assyrians, Babylon became the capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 609 to 539 BC . The Hanging Gardens of Babylon was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World . After the fall of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the city came under the rule of the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, Roman, and Sassanid empires . </P>

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