books.google.co.uk - Babylon stands with Athens and Rome as a cultural ancestor of western civilization. It was founded by the people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the fertile crescent between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers before the fourth millennium b.c. Some of the earliest experiments in agriculture and...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Babylonians.html?id=BPdLxEyHci0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBabylonians