Geography 🌎

- most famous city from ancient Mesopotamia

- ruins lie in modern-day Iraq 59 miles southwest of Baghdad

- had a minor city or a large port town on the Euphrates River where it runs closest to the Tigris river

- water level in the region raised steadily over the centuries

- the ruins of Babylon have become inaccessible

- The ruins that are visible today, date back to over one thousand years after the city was founded