The Bible details how an ancient king received a doomsday warning about famine, war and exile. Now, archaeologists have ...

At its peak, the Old Babylonian Empire rose to be one of the biggest civilizations the world had seen–but what was daily life ...

A Biblical fingerprint discovered on an ancient seal connects Jerusalem’s First Temple period to figures named in the ...

Babylon, capital of several kingdoms for more than one-thousand years, was occasionally conquered and sacked, but its civic institutions — the municipal bodies of self-governance and the temples — ...

Based on the writing style, the sealing dates to the late First Temple period, approximately the late-7th to early-6th ...

Saturday night, August 2nd is the Jewish fast day, “9th of Av.” The Fast of Av commemorates the ancient destructions of the Jewish Holy Temples and the subsequent Jewish Exiles. The “First Temple,” ...

Babylon was an important city in ancient Mesopotamia, located in Iraq about 100 kilometres south of Baghdad. Jupiter was associated with Marduk, the city's patron god. Planets guided life on Earth ...

Camp Alpha, a U.S. military base in Iraq, was built directly on top of the ancient temple area of Babylon. The base's location was chosen to protect the archeological site from looters.