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 ...

Babylon, an hour's drive south of Baghdad, dates to ancient Mesopotamia. The city on the banks of the Euphrates River was the home of Hammurabi and later Nebuchadnezzar, who built the famous ...

In a revelation that bridges millennia, the Babylonian Map of the World, or "Imago Mundi," has emerged as a dazzling relic of ancient geography ... the illustrious city of Babylon.

Assyriologist Irving Finkel investigated ancient Babylon’s relationship with the spiritual and occult. In particular, he looked at a cuneiform tablet from 1,500 B.C.E. which appears to offer ...