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Ur
Sumerian city of the moon god, with its great ziggurat still standing.
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Mesopotamia, Persia and the Levant: where writing, law and the first cities were born.
6 cities
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Ur
Sumerian city of the moon god, with its great ziggurat still standing.
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Damascus
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities, and capital of the Umayyads.
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Babylon
City of Hammurabi's laws, Nebuchadnezzar's walls and the blue Ishtar Gate.
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Persepolis
Ceremonial capital of the Persian kings, burned by Alexander.
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Petra
The rose-red city carved straight into the cliffs.
Baghdad
The Round City of the Abbasids and home of the House of Wisdom.