Inconvenient historical realities have never discouraged rulers from reshaping the history of Babylon in their own image and generating new myths in the process. One of the most brazen examples is ...
The history of Egypt at this time is almost a blank and the doings of even major Babylonian kings like Nebuchadnezzar have had to be reconstructed from a few building inscriptions supplemented by ...
Assad’s fall marks a turning point not only in Syrian history but also in the way the world engages with its cultural ...
Plimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by archeologist Edgar J Banks, the man believed to have inspired Indiana Jones.
For instance, "Babylon" is marked on only one end of the Euphrates, even though it occupied both banks for most of its ...
Marduk then appropriated Tishpak’s chief symbol, the lion-dragon hybrid beast known as mušhuššu, or “furious snake,” with whom he would be associated for the rest of Babylonian history.
A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ...
Damien Chazelle’s 2022 historical dramedy “Babylon” is one of the most notorious box office bombs of the past few years, and ...