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Babylon, a small port town situated on the Euphrates River, grew to become one of the most prosperous cities within Mesopotamia. Today, Babylon is located within modern-day Iraq, roughly 50 miles south of Baghdad. The city originally dates to around 2,000...

Located in Cambodia at Angkor, the capital of the Khmer empire, Angkor Wat is a temple widely known as a grand iteration of Buddhist monumentation and world heritage site. Though understood today as a Buddhist site, this was not always its primary...