Was the historical city of Babylon (Iraq) a desert city?

modern city of  ancient iraq

 Babylon… Iraq, wasn’t constantly a wilderness.

In fact, at some stage in the Persian and Assyrian empires the whole lot of Mesopotamia from Egypt to Afghanistan changed into the Fertile Crescent. It changed into open grassland. Yes, there has been a wilderness in Arabia, however it wasn’t like it's far today.

Over-farming, over-grazing, and no crop rotation brought about barren region expansion.

In the contemporary-day Nineteen Twenties and 30s Oklahoma had nearly the equal problem. It become referred to as the Dust Bowl.

Modern scientists have been capable of rescue this panorama through tapping the close by aquifers and regulating land usage.

In historical Babylon they didn’t have the ones strategies yet. When a area not produced, it turned into abandoned. This had took place throughout the Sahara.

During the time of sultans and emperors and pharaohs all of Northern Africa became a fertile savannah. That’s why no one withinside the historic texts communicate of the wasteland. We, in part, helped the barren region to form.

No, we didn’t without delay motive the desolate tract, the free soil already existed for hundreds of thousands of years. During that time, no person turned into the use of it though.

Anyway, Babylon used crude (through todays standards) aqueduct structures to move water from the Euphrates river to the Great City. It turned into one of the first towns withinside the international that had smooth water to be had to each citizen.

An artists imaginative and prescient of historic Babylon.