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 ...

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

The New Arab revisits the ancient cities of the Middle East, highlighting the destruction caused by war, looting, and neglect ...

The spread of the cult of Marduk across Mesopotamia was proof of Babylon’s prestige. No ancient city was so desired and feared, so admired and denigrated. But in the Hebrew tradition ...

In 612 Nineveh, the ancient capital of Assyria ... for ten years I went about among these and entered not into my city of Babylon. The exile of Nabonidus to Tema in Southern Arabia has long ...

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.

The ancient city of Babylon is thought to be the first place where clay was moulded into pipes to channel waste away from dwellings. The earliest example of piping, knee and t-joints – thousands ...

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