This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

Mesopotamia, known as the cradle of civilization ... Another question is whether Kurd Qaburstan could be identified as the ancient city of Qabra, mentioned in Babylonian monuments like the Stele of ...

Though Akkadian as a spoken language in Mesopotamia died out toward the end ... Greek scholars are known to have flocked to Babylon during this time to learn astronomy, and excavated tablets ...

Keywords: Babylonia, Akkadian, Achaemenid period ... His research focuses on Sumerian, especially on Emesal, and the intellectual and literary history of Mesopotamia. For several years he was part of ...