From the ashes of a shattered Assyrian world, a new empire arose under one of antiquity's most formidable rulers. This is the ...

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of what ...

The Babylonian Empire was one of the richest and most powerful societies in ancient history. Situated along the Euphrates River in modern-day Iraq, the state prospered from its trade with nearby ...

Ruled by Hammurabi, restored by Nebuchadrezzar, conquered by Cyrus—this city in the heart of Mesopotamia was both desired and ...

The Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires has published an annotated text corpus of some 6,000 Babylonian texts from the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. The texts have been ...

The ancient clay tablet reveals what Babylonians believed in mythical creatures and mystical lands THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has ...