The rediscovered lines also give rare voice to Babylon’s women, especially its priestesses. It describes them as devout and ...

Propaganda was perhaps less subtle three millennia ago: it’s doubtful a modern singer would describe their nation’s laws as ...

An ancient poem written in the dying days of Mesopotamia has been rediscovered after more than 2,000 years. Researchers at ...

Sung to the god Marduk, patron deity of the great city, the hymn describes Babylon's flowing rivers, jewelled gates, and ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been ...

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to imagine futuristic skylinesmelding ziggurats with modernism in a visionary ...

In the ancient city of Nimrud (in modern-day Iraq), two statues dedicated to Nabu, the Babylonian god of knowledge and writing, mention her name.

Ur (present-day Tell el-Muqayyar in Iraq), south of Uruk where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run into the Persian Gulf, was founded sometime in the fourth millennium B.C.

Is the ancient city of Babylon merely a metaphor—or is it rising again, just as Scripture foretold? Pastor James Kaddis and Dr. Andy Woods believe the answer is crystal clear: Babylon is literal, and ...

Real-estate development has been allowed on important sites such as Al-Hira, the pre-Islamic capital of southern Iraq, which now partly lies under the Najaf airport; Old Basra, one of the largest ...