The Rim is one of the most mysterious elements of Babylon 5 serving as the secret untapped frontier of countless ancient ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...