Where is babylon located today?

Due to Babylon's historical significance as well as references to it in the Bible, the word"Babylon" in various languages has acquired a generic meaning of a large, bustling diverse city. Examples include: Babylon is used in reggae music as a concept in the Rastafari belief system, denoting the materialistic capitalist world. read more

Babylon was the name of the capital of Babylonia, one of several city states in Mesopotamia. Our modern name for the city is a version of the ancient Akkadian name for it: Bab Ilani or"Gate of the Gods". Babylon's ruins are located in what is today Iraq, near the modern town of Hilla and on the eastern bank of the Euphrates river. read more

"Babylon" today is composed of all of those things together, as is plainly stated in the Holy Scriptures i.e."the kings of the earth" and"the merchants of the earth" are all parts of it. read more

Others referred to Baghdad as Babylon or New Babylon and described various structures encountered in the region as the Tower of Babel. Pietro della Valle found the ancient site in the seventeenth century and noted the existence of both baked and dried mudbricks cemented with bitumen. read more

Babylon was the name of the capital of Babylonia, one of several city states in Mesopotamia. Our modern name for the city is a version of the ancient Akkadian name for it: Bab Ilani or "Gate of the Gods". Babylon's ruins are located in what is today Iraq, near the modern town of Hilla and on the eastern bank of the Euphrates river. read more

"Babylon" today is composed of all of those things together, as is plainly stated in the Holy Scriptures i.e. "the kings of the earth" and "the merchants of the earth" are all parts of it. read more