Babylon is known for Hammurabi's laws and its hanging gardens. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ancient Babylon was an ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...

The spread of the cult of Marduk across Mesopotamia was proof of Babylon’s prestige. No ancient city was so desired and feared, so admired and denigrated. But in the Hebrew tradition ...

The ancient Babylonians were no exception. Early innovators in the field of astronomy, though more similar to what we know as astrology, the Babylonians held great significance to the behavior of ...

(History's first superpower sprang from ancient Iran.) Nearly 50 years later, in 540 B.C., Babylon and the Neo-Babylonian regime fell to the Persian conqueror Cyrus the Great, who allowed the ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

The resting place of Noah’s Ark—a ship said in the Bible to have saved two of every animal during an ancient Great Flood sent by God to flush evil out of the world—may have been located ...