New Babylon

New Babylon

New Babylon may refer to:

  • Neo-Babylonian Empire (626 BC–539 BC), a period of Mesopotamian history that is also known as the Chaldean Dynasty
  • New Babylon (Constant Nieuwenhuys), the anti-capitalist city designed in 1950 by artist-architect Constant Nieuwenhuys
  • New Babylon (Left Behind), a fictional city depicted in the 1995 Left Behind series of books
  • The New Babylon, a 1929 film written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
  • Whore of Babylon or "Babylon the great", a Christian allegorical figure of evil mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible

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