In modern Iraq, the ruins of ancient Babylon have witnessed epochs of historic turmoil. They now face an uncertain future, ...

When writer Jessica Phillips visited Istanbul, the city was in a state of flux – yet she fell for its many layers of beauty, ...

Work on the Temple of Ninmakh and walls at the Ishtar Gate is nearing completion at the Mesopotamian metropolis, a victim of ...

At its peak, the Old Babylonian Empire rose to be one of the biggest civilizations the world had seen–but what was daily life like? Along with the pioneering legal code of Hammurabi, a wealth of ...

Roughly 100 lines of the hymn's ending are still missing or mutilated, according to the studyCredit: Anmar A. Fadhil and Enrique Jiménez Without AI, it would have taken decades to decode. The text, ...

A team of researchers led by Professor Enrique Jiménez of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) has succeeded in reconstructing an ancient hymn of praise to the city of Babylon, dated to around ...

Explores the historical significance of libraries and the role of librarians as custodians of knowledge. It reflects on the evolution of libraries from ancient times, highlighting key figures like ...

For the Ancient Babylonians, astrological divination was a tool of serious statecraft. The mercurial gods were believed to place coded signs in the heavens above that foretold the fate of kings, their ...

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 ...