The Rise & Fall of Babylon
The story of an ancient superpower that gave us the blueprint for civilisation.
Babylon has a PR problem, and it's 2,600 years in the making.
The Bible remembers it as the ultimate city of sin, the place that crushed Jerusalem and dragged the Jewish people into exile. But if you look beyond this chapter, you find history's first true megacity. An ancient metropolis so influential that even the empires that conquered it couldn't resist becoming Babylonian themselves.
Dan sits down with historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, author of 'Babylon: The Mother of All Cities', to hear all about this ancient superpower.
Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Matthew Wilson.
All music from Epidemic Sounds/All3Media.
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