The Cyrus Cylinder, an ancient artifact dating back to the 6th century BCE, has long been hailed as a symbol of tolerance, religious freedom, and the intersection of cultures. This inscribed clay ...

The sun hangs heavy over central Iraq in late afternoon, painting the ruins of Babylon in heat and light. Dust rises from the ground in soft clouds, carrying a faint scent that seems older than time ...

Although archaeologists have excavated 500,000 cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamian sites over the last two centuries, about half of these texts now in museums around the world haven’t been thoroughly ...

In world history class, students often learn that human civilization arose in Mesopotamia — the so-called "Fertile Crescent" — and in the same breath, many teachers dive into the history of Babylon.

Visualizing the greatest metropolis in the ancient world requires the full powers of imagination. This is partly due to simple geology. The sun-hardened mud bricks favored by Babylon’s builders have ...

Babylon's bright-blue Ishtar Gate was thought to have been built to celebrate the conquest of Jerusalem — but a new analysis finds that it may have been erected years later. While it's known that ...

The making of Babylon. The ancient landscape of Cairo ; The river of Trajan ; Diocletian and the Roman fortress of Babylon -- The making of old Cairo. Al-Fustat and the making of old Cairo ; Cycles of ...

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