The Ark of the Covenant was used by the Israelites to transport the tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments.

Near the start of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, there was a massive but largely forgotten battle between the Greeks and the ...

“Babylonian civilization, however, was dominated throughout by a spirit of calculating commercialism, of hard and mechanical requirements, which deprived the social evolution of the Babylonians ...

Imago Mundi provides a unique insight into the beliefs and practices of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization. Archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered the Babylonian tablet in 1882. For over a ...

By 1000 B.C., the Assyrians, who had established a powerful empire in northern Mesopotamia, gained the upper hand. But despite periods of stable rule, Babylon would always fall to someone else.

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago. The Imago Mundi (tablet) provided the ...

the Persian Empire succeeded the Babylonian Empire in becoming the dominant power of the Near East. Drawing on the rich history of 'multi-national' empires that had dominated the region since the ...