Babel/Babylon = Baghdad?

I was looking at a map in my Bible and it struck me that the city of Babylon (formerly known as Babel, where the tower was built) is very close in location to the current location of Baghdad. Does anyone know if there is any archeological evidence that modern Baghdad is on the same site, or nearby, to Babylon?

Nearby. They’re about 50 miles apart according to this page.

Iraq formerly known as Mesopotamia, has been around for a long, long time.

Babylon was about four miles north of the current city of al-Hillah, on the East bank of the Euphrates.

(Nineveh was further north on both sides of the Khosr River where it flows into the Tigris, opposite the current city of Mosul.)

Baghdad was built during the VIII° century as a new exemplary (and magnificent) capital in the middle of nowhere (like Brazilia in modern times). It has a lot of historical signifiance since it was the head of the califate (at a time when the arab empire was unified). But it has nothing to do with Babylon.

My encyclopedia puts Babylon at 32[sup]0[/sup]33N 44[sup]0[/sup]25E and Baghdad at 33[sup]0[/sup]20N 44[sup]0[/sup]26E. When plotted on a map this concurs very nicely with what ** tomndebb** said.

Isn’t Bagdad very close to the ancient city of Ur?

According to this map Ur looks like it would be in Kuwait.

:smiley:

What that smug reporter neglects to mention is that the inhabitants of Ur were also “still walking around in animal skins”.