Who lives in Babylon today?

If you look at a picture of Babylon today, it is abandoned and in ruin, no one lives there, but why? Babylon has been inhabited for centuries, was one of the first megalopolises, and is even mentioned in the Bible. The city itself has been the capital of two major empires and stayed a major city in other empires.



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Is Babylon inhabited today? No, but the site was once again open to tourists in 2009. However, after years of destruction, there is not much left of the historical ruins today. You can see the rebuilt ruins from Saddam Hussein's area.

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To this day people can still see the famous walls of Babylon. However, the only original sections that are still preserved today are the foundation walls. The remainder of the walls were reconstructed.

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After Alexander's death, however, the extent to which the empire was fought over saw the city's inhabitants flee, and Babylon steadily fell into ruin. In the 1980s, Babylon was extensively reconstructed by the Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, so there is little of the original city that is still visible.

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Historians have only been able to agree on one thing: The tower was said to reach up to the sky. Herodotus, the Father of History, described this symbol of Babylon as a wonder of the world. The Tower of Babel stood at the very heart of the vibrant metropolis of Babylon in what is today Iraq.

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Babylon was the capital of the Babylonian and Neo-Babylonian Empires. It was a sprawling, heavily-populated city with enormous walls and multiple palaces and temples. Famous structures and artifacts include the temple of Marduk, the Ishtar Gate, and stelae upon which Hammurabi's Code was written.

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