The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum documents the history and legacy of the ancient Parsi community - a small ethnic group ...

Unesco's World Heritage Committee voted on Friday to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage Site after three decades of lobbying efforts by Iraq. Iraq had been ...

Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon. Photo: Sepia Times / Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Cuneiform script, developed in Mesopotamia around ...

Mesopotamia, a Greek name for the site of a diverse and rich civilisation spanning from prehistoric times to the fall of Babylon during the 6th century BCE, has given us a sophisticated ...

But are Mesopotamia and Babylon the same thing? The answer is no, they are not the same; in short, Mesopotamia is a region, and Babylon was an ancient city (and later the center of an empire ...

Here’s how it works. Ancient Babylon was an influential city that served as a center of Mesopotamian civilization for nearly two millennia, from roughly 2000 B.C. to 540 B.C. It was located near ...

The hunt for the gardens is one of the most tantalizing quests in Mesopotamian scholarship, and archaeologists are still puzzling out where such gardens may have been located in Babylon ...

There weren't many signs guiding Samira, Rasul and I to Babylon. Learning that Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization – stretched through Iraq was monumental for me as a kid. It was the first ...

In Akkadian, the new sovereign’s name, Nabu­kudurri­usur, means “Nabu [the Mesopotamian god of wisdom and writing], watch over my heir.” He was named after Nebuchadrezzar I, Babylon’s ...

Babylon was one of the glories of the ancient ... Founded about 4,000 years ago, the ancient city was the capital of 10 dynasties in Mesopotamia, considered one of the earliest cradles of ...