A 2,000-year-old Babylonian hymn pieced together with AI reveals rare details about ancient life, women’s roles, and the beauty of Babylon.

Babylon, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, existed from roughly 2000 B.C. to 540 B.C.

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Archaeologists have found a hymn dating from nearly 3,000 years ago that describes the city of Babylon in glowing terms, praises its people, location, and river. It seems the words struck such a chord ...

Researchers finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets — and the messages aren’t about bright hopes for the future but are nearly all death, doom and gloom.

Ancient Iran was home to numerous exceptionally powerful kings throughout history. This was particularly so in the era of the ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...

In mid-October, the team—working on a dig in the Al-Fayadiya district—discovered a major section of ancient Babylon that spans two periods of the city’s development.

Ancient 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets finally deciphered - with ominous predictions ... This refers to a civilization that was found in what is now modern-day Iran.

It's a promising new blend of strategy and simulation from a god's-eye view.

But the Babylonian Empire quickly fell apart after the death of Hammurabi and was turned into a small kingdom around the city of Babylon. It was also home to one of the seven wonders of the ...

Ancient Babylonians predicted death omens by deciphering lunar eclipses, a newly translated tablet revealed. The 4,000-year-old tablet said that the omens often foretold the death of the king.