Archaeological site Mesopotamia and the Levant
Babylon
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Capital city of Babylonia and an archaeological site in modern-day Iraq
- Dated 3rd millennium BCE – 1st millennium CE
- Also called Mint of Babylon
Within the site
Inside Babylon
4 recorded places within the site, from their own records.
What this means
A place listed here names this site as its whole or its location in its own record; the build reads that from the place’s end, so the row is computed rather than stated by the site. It does not imply that the site as a whole was a place of worship, that its parts were in use at the same time, or that these are all the places it held.
Placed in its collection by the 4 places recorded in it or its districts: Computed
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Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated 3rd millennium BCE – 1st millennium CE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not a date of worship there. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Babylon, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Also recorded as located here: Tower of Babel
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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17 km awayKish
ancient Sumerian city -
35 km awayEzekiel's Tomb
mausoleum in Al Kifl, Iraq -
37 km awayAl Abbas Mosque
mosque in Iraq -
37 km awayKarbala
city in Karbala Governorate, Iraq -
37 km awayImam Husayn Mausoleum
burial site of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Imam of Islam, in the city of Karbala, Iraq -
39 km awayJemdet Nasr
archaeological site in Iraq -
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56 km awayAl-Sahlah Mosque
mosque in Iraq -
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57 km awayGreat Mosque of Kufa
mosque in Iraq
Connections
How Babylon connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply that the culture was religiously uniform
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Place 2
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Recorded events and days 2
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
6 statements on this record
- 5 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 collection membership and 1 recorded place within it. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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