[RobbyS]

I recently read a short blurb about Babylon in connection with the movement of 3rd MD past the site. According to it the city was in the First Century pretty much nothing.

[malakhi]

I recently read a short blurb about Babylon in connection with the movement of 3rd MD past the site. According to it the city was in the First Century pretty much nothing.

That may be true of the city itself, but the name also referred to the surrounding region as well.