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- UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has listed Iraq’s “Babylon” as a World Heritage Site.
- This ancient Mesopotamian city was developed as a walled city of mudbrick temples and towers, constituting the Tower of Babel, and the Ishtar Gate.
- It was the centre of the ancient Babylonian empire more than 4,000 years ago.
- Famous rulers who ruled from Babylon include Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar.
- Babylon is world famous for its Hanging gardens.
- The other recently selected list of World Heritage sites are
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