According to Mesopotamian mythology, Marduk was the God of Creation and the patron God of Babylon who was also revered as the god of justice, compassion, healing and magic. The Imago Mundi was ...

The troopers were in their respective patrol cars on the Southern State Parkway Eastbound near the exits for the Babylon, when one parked car was struck from behind by a gray 2004 Toyota Rav 4.

A West Babylon woman was killed earlier this month when she was struck by a car while crossing Route 109 in West Babylon, Suffolk police said. She was identified by police Tuesday as Laura Bowman, 71.

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In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic material suggests. By Franz Lidz The Italian writer Italo Calvino ...

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CORNWALL, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that excavations at the site of King Arthur's Hall on Bodmin Moor, which scholars once thought had been constructed in the medieval period, yielded evidence ...

Babylon, for one, was founded in the late 1890s B.C.E. and Memphis, Egypt’s first capital, had a population of more than 40,000 by the early 2000s B.C.E. Researchers described it as a period of ...

Monday marked the 102nd anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings on November 4, 1922, one of the most spectacular discoveries in archaeology. On that fateful ...

secretary general of the Supreme Council of Archaeology, said that the importance of the discovery, the first in the region from the Middle Kingdom, will change the history of the area.

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There are good Call of Duty maps, there are forgettable Call of Duty maps, there are bad Call of Duty maps, and then there's Babylon. Set in a dusty corner of a beleaguered Iraq in 1991 ...