This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...
Investigating the reign of Mesopotamia’s mosteccentric ruler ...
The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be added to the United Nations ...
the monumental complex that once welcomed visitors to Babylon, the ancient Mesopotamian capital located near Baghdad, in modern-day central Iraq. The Levantine anomaly Mesopotamia is the ...