Hammurabi was a king of the First Amorite Dynasty of Babylon. Babylon had already begun to expand from a city-state to a kingdom under the rule of his father, Sin-Muballit who conquered the city-states of Borsippa, Kish, and Sippar. Hammurabi continued Babylon's expansion and developed it from a minor kingdom to a power which united Mesopotamia under his rule.

Hammurabi was a king of the First Amorite Dynasty of Babylon. Babylon had already begun to expand from a city-state to a kingdom under the rule of his father, Sin-Muballit who conquered the city-states of Borsippa, Kish, and Sippar. Hammurabi continued Babylon's expansion and developed it from a minor kingdom to a power which united Mesopotamia under his rule.

Babylon

Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, the faithful prince appointed by the will of Marduk, the highest of princely princes, beloved of Nabu, of prudent counsel, who has learned to embrace wisdom, who fathomed their divine being and reveres their majesty, the untiring governor, who always takes to heart the care of the cult of Esagila and Ezida and is constantly concerned with the well-being of Babylon and Borsippa, the wise, the humble, the caretaker of Esagila and Ezida, the firstborn son of Nabopolassar, the King of Babylon.

Both gate entrances of Imgur-Ellil and Nemetti-Ellil following the filling of the street from Babylon had become increasingly lower. Therefore, I pulled down these gates and laid their foundations at the water table with asphalt and bricks and had them made of bricks with blue stone on which wonderful bulls and dragons were depicted. I covered their roofs by laying majestic cedars length-wise over them. I hung doors of cedar adorned with bronze at all the gate openings. I placed wild bulls and ferocious dragons in the gateways and thus adorned them with luxurious splendor so that people might gaze on them in wonder

I let the temple of Esiskursiskur (the highest festival house of Markduk, the Lord of the Gods a place of joy and celebration for the major and minor gods) be built firm like a mountain in the precinct of Babylon of asphalt and fired bricks.

The Tower of Babel definitely existed in Babylon. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote of the ziggurat. Even in 460 BC, after the tower had been crumbling for many years, the Greek historian Herodotus visited the tower and was very impressed. "It has a solid central tower, one furlong square, with a second erected on top of it and then a third, and so on up to eight. All eight towers can be climbed by a spiral way running around the outside, and about halfway up there are seats for those who make the journey to rest on."

There are three possible locations for it:-

...[T]he Tower of Babel [is] somewhere in Babylon [b]ut there are three principal opinions as to its precise position in the city.

(1) ....located the tower in the north of the city, on the left bank of the Euphrates, where now lie the ruins called Babil.......

(2) ... places the tower on the ruins of Tell-Amram, ...These ruins are situated on the same side of the Euphrates as those of the Babil, and also within the ancient city limits.

(3)...tower of Babel with the ruins of the Birs-Nimrud, in Borsippa, situated on the right side of the Euphrates, some seven or eight miles from the ruins of the city proper. ...