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 ...

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 ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian ... and a star symbolizing the goddess Ishtar.(World History Archive/Alamy Stock Photo) Ever since Assyriologists, who ...