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 tablets date back some 4,000 years to the area of Sipparan, an ancient Babylonian city southwest of what is now Baghdad. Trustees of the British Museum They “represent the oldest examples of ...

Ancient Babylonians attributed prescient meaning to celestial events, a study published this month argues, shedding fresh light on the Mesopotamian people of the second millennium BC. The paper ...

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

(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 ...

By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, of course, an eclipse occurred during his reign. Such an event foretold revolt, rebellion, defeat in war, loss of territory ...