Babylon

Auriga

The first record of Auriga’s stars was in Mesopotamia as a constellation called GAM, representing a scimitar or crook. However, this may have represented just Capella (Alpha Aurigae) or the modern constellation as a whole; this figure was alternatively called Gamlum or MUL.GAM in the MUL.APIN.

code of law

Code of Hammurabi

Corvus

In the Babylonian star catalogues dating from at least 1100 BCE, what later became known as Corvus was called the Raven (MUL.UGA.MUSHEN).

king

Hammurabi

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Nimrod

The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar. Genesis 10:10 NIV

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Pauli exclusion principle

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ancient city
Mesopotamia
Iraq

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5684

Wikipedia

Babylon (Wikipedia) Babylon is an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia, with its rulers establishing two important empires in antiquity, namely the 18th century BC Old Babylonian Empire and the 7th–6th century BC Neo-Babylonian Empire, and the city would also be used as a regional capital of other empires, such as the Achaemenid Empire. Babylon was one of the most important urban centres of the ancient Near East until its decline during the Hellenistic period.