The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco ... popular and religious culture on a global scale." It also warns that the site is in an "extremely vulnerable condition ...
Babylon has resonated in Judeo-Christian ... Nebuchadrezzar II (reigned 605-561 B.C.). Koldewey’s finds revealed an ancient locus of culture and political power. These excavations unearthed ...
A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ...
Assyrian might was reflected in the imposing palaces, libraries and sculptures of the Assyrian kings. Babylonian culture was outstanding in literature, mathematics and astronomy, and the great ...
CULTURE: Late Babylonian. DATE: ca ... is the key to understanding all manner of cultural activities in the ancient Near East—from determining what was known of the cosmos and its workings ...
San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany has revealed extraordinary archaeological finds, including bronze statues, coins, and ...
Amsler demonstrates exceptional command of a wide range of sources and contexts, combined with a keen sensitivity to the material and social dimensions of late ancient knowledge ... The Babylonian ...