The books of the Old Testament recount the exile of the Jews to Babylon following the sack of Jerusalem, by whose waters they “sat down and wept.” By the time of the New Testament, the city ...

The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World ... Lisa Ackerman, interim CEO of the New York-based World Monuments Fund, told the BBC the charity had been working ...

Qahtan Al-Abeed/Courtesy UNESCO) Babylon’s New Year festival, held during the spring, was Marduk’s special holiday and the city’s most important rite. The god’s statue was carried from its ...

A replica of this gateway now serves as a prime tourist attraction in Iraq, enticing visitors to the historic city of Babylon ...

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An impossible city is built up out of enormous rotating rings, steering the lives of its lonely inhabitants. New Babylon is a visual trip through an oppressive night in which contemporary ...