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 ...