At its heart lies the Euphrates River, and prominently featured is the illustrious city of Babylon. The map’s cuneiform ...
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 ...
Dating back to the 5th century BCE, this clay tablet map was discovered in Sippar, a city in southern Iraq, located north of Babylon along the Euphrates River. Though limited by the tools and ...
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 ...