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ordering. Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine,

Britain's bestselling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthon. This episode is the latest in our everything you wanted to know series,

in which we explore a subject through questions that you've sent in on social media and popular

internet search queries. Today's topic is the Ancient City of Babylon, and our expert is Professor

Zainab Barani of Columbia University in New York. Putting the questions to her was BBC History

magazine's editor, Rob Attar. Today I'm delighted to be joined by Zainab Barani. Zainab is Edith

Perrada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University in New York,

and an expert obviously in the Ancient Near East. She's written numerous books and articles,

most recently Mesopotamia Art and Architecture, which was published a couple of years ago by

Thames and Hudson. As always with these podcasts, the questions we're going to ask are a combination

of some that are listeners of sent in via social media, as well as some popular internet search

queries. So to begin with a fairly simple but important question, where exactly was the City

of Babylon located? The City of Babylon was and is still located in the south of modern-day Iraq.

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