By 1000 B.C., the Assyrians, who had established a powerful empire in northern Mesopotamia, gained the upper hand. But despite periods of stable rule, Babylon would always fall to someone else.

A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ...

Investigating the reign of Mesopotamia’s mosteccentric ruler ...

Considered the oldest in the world, it was created approximately 2600 to 2900 years ago, during the height of the ...

People began to invent a self-made religion—of course, not without the prompting of the devil. During the heyday of the Chaldean-Babylonian civilization, they built a gigantic ziggurat in the ...

the Persian Empire succeeded the Babylonian Empire in becoming the dominant power of the Near East. Drawing on the rich history of 'multi-national' empires that had dominated the region since the ...

Babylon represents the expression of the creativity of the Neo-Babylonian Empire at its height. "The city's association with one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - the Hanging Gardens ...

All the latest game footage and images from Sid Meier's Civilization V: Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar II) by Firaxis Games | 2010 2 / 5 3 / 5 4 / 5 5 / 5 2 / 5 3 / 5 4 / 5 5 / 5 ...