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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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