He brings home with him a collection of inscribed monuments of the Babylonian Empire, which will probably be deposited permanently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New-York. View Full Article ...

Interestingly, both versions point to Ararat, a mountain in eastern Turkey, as this boat’s final resting place, with both Babylonian poems and the Imago Mundi referring to “Urartu,” Ararat ...

The two layers excavated dated to the Sasanian period—an empire ruled between 224–651 C.E—and the ancient Babylonian period—ruled between ca. 1894 and 1595 B.C.E. The deeper Babylonian ...

For a long time, it was the capital of the Babylonian Empire, and was considered to be the global centre of commerce, art and learning, and is even estimated to have been the largest early city in ...

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 ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him ...

Researchers have finally decoded a Babylonian tablet thought to be the oldest map of the world. Created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago, the Imago Mundi provided researchers with a unique ...