Seven Weird Things Which the Babylonians Thought Were Normal

The brief look at the dark side of ancient Babylon.

Sal
Lessons from History
7 min readSep 8, 2022

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Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

The ancient city of Babylon was roughly 50 miles south of Baghdad along the Euphrates River in modern-day Iraq. The ancient Akkadian-speaking inhabitants of southern Mesopotamia founded it at approximately 2300 B.C.

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Lessons from History

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