The splendid city of Babylon, located between the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris some 60 miles south of Baghdad, was one of them. Unlike the many towns that fell and disappeared ...
Investigating the reign of Mesopotamia’s mosteccentric ruler ...
Overlook Beach, among several others on the South Shore, were severely by storms earlier in the year, which led to the ...
A replica of this gateway now serves as a prime tourist attraction in Iraq, enticing visitors to the historic city of Babylon ...
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 present work, which appeared in 1839, contains Rich's 1811 journal of his first visit to the site of the ancient city of Babylon, followed by the archaeological memoir he published in 1815.