Babylonia was a state in ancient Mesopotamia, located in present-day Iraq. The city of Babylon, which you've probably heard of in songs and movies, was founded more than 4,000 years ago as a small ...

The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford possesses about two dozen cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon that students ... in 1931 from Kish, in present-day Iraq, the Ashmolean Museum ...

Outside the biblical tradition, Babylon intrigued Greek and Roman writers, who added to the rich store of legends that have come down to the present day ... in what is now Iraq.