When the first-century B.C. writer Diodorus Siculus describes the walls of Babylon, he actually appears to be describing the walls of Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire. He describes a ...

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

On the left are some walls, to the north is a raised platform, and in the middle is also raised but otherwise featureless. The coolest-looking architectural feature of Babylon, the pair of arched ...

Plenty will have heard Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall,” the title song for a ... Nebuchadnezzar was the great king of Babylon, represented by a head of gold, and Cyrus the Great ...