Babel is the name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon. It means "gate of the god", corresponding to the Akkadian Bab-ili. According to Genesis 11:1-9, mankind, after the deluge, traveled from the mountain of the East, where the ark had rested, and settled in 'a plain...
Babylonia was an ancient cultural region in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), withBabylonas its capital. Babylonia emerged as a major power when Hammurabi (1792 - 1750 BC or fl. ca. 1696 - 1654 BC, short chronology) created an empire out of the territories of the former Ak...
bringing the Assyrian empire to its farthest limits and the Assyrian civilization to its zenith. Yet the wars of Sennacherib, Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal, which through the inflated language of the royal inscriptions look like glorious
The Bible depicts Nebuchadrezzar II and his city as doomed, but to his own people, he restored Babylon to glory.