Babylonia
Artist's reconstruction of the great Tower of Babel
Babylon (Babylonian, Bab-ilim or Babil, 'Gate of God'), one of the most important cities of the ancient world, whose location today is marked by a broad area of ruins just east of the Euphrates River, 56 miles south of Baghdad..
Babylonia was located in what is now southern Iraq. Babylonian literature was well developed in the third millennium B.C. Records have been found of highly developed religion, history and science, including medicine, chemistry, alchemy, botany, zoology, math and astronomy.
In the Old Testament it is called 'Shinar' - Akkadia and Sumer as well as 'the land of the Chaldeans.'
The Babylonians lived in Mesopotamia, a fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.