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 ...

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 ...

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.

At times, Babylon was at the center of a large empire. This empire reached its greatest extent during the rule of King Nebuchadnezzar II (reign 605 B.C. to 562 B.C.), when it stretched from the ...

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.

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...