What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

Researchers are shedding light on an ancient Babylonian tablet known as the oldest map of the world. The map was likely created around 2,600 years ago and offers a glimpse into the past.

A visitor takes photos inside the 2,500-year-old Nabu-Sha-Khare temple. Of all the battered ruins of Iraq’s ancient city of Babylon, the temple has the most restoration potential, with its ...

Map showing the location of Babylon, Iraq. W. Castello / AP. U.S. forces staffed the site until September 2003, when they were replaced by Polish troops.

BABYLON, Iraq (AP) — A U.S.-funded program to restore the ruins of Iraq's ancient city of Babylon is threatened by a dispute among Iraqi officials over whether the priority should be preserving ...

BABYLON, Iraq (Reuters) - For a site whose historical importance ranks with Egypt's Pyramids, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has suffered some rough treatment. In recent times, U.S ...

Learning that Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization – stretched through Iraq was monumental for Zahra Ahmad as a kid. It was the first time she felt true pride being Iraqi.

BABYLON, Iraq — After decades of dictatorship and disrepair, Iraq is celebrating its renewed sovereignty over the Babylon archaeological site — by fighting over the place, over its past and ...