Babylon’s history — seen by documents, artifacts, photos and other memorabilia — will be open to the public again. The Babylon Village Museum was closed for two years due to renovation and an artifact ...

The Bible paints an unflattering portrait of Babylon as a corrupt civilization cursed by ambition, excess and power-hungry kings. In the Book of Genesis, its residents build the Tower of Babel in a ...

Babylon — home to one of the seven wonders of the world — will remain closed until experts determine how much damage foreign forces had done to the site, Iraq's culture minister said on Monday. A ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Ancient artifacts thousands of years old were returned to the Republic of Iraq this week. The artifacts had been seized by federal law enforcement officials in separate ...

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 ...

A curator exploring the shadowy recesses of the British Museum’s archives recently encountered a ghost—or rather, the world’s oldest image of one, etched onto a 3,500-year-old Babylonian clay tablet.

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...

Dozens of research articles from 1999–2024 mention early Babylonians using fingerprint biometrics, despite no evidence ...

Iraq's partially restored National Museum reopened yesterday with a red-carpet gala in the heart of Baghdad nearly six years after looters carried away priceless antiquities in the chaos of the city's ...

When the Yale Peabody Museum reopens as a free museum next year, there will be much more than dinosaurs to wow visitors. There’s a clay page from a Mesopotamian cookbook, dating from 1700 B.C.E., ...