The image shows the upper portion of the Code of Hammurabi stele, one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world, dating to around 1754 BCE in ancient Babylon (modern-day ...

Researchers have managed to decipher four 4,000-year-old Babylonian cuneiform tablets that predict future disasters based on lunar eclipses. The tablets, which are kept at the British Museum and ...

Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon, of which she is the legendary founder. Edgar Degas’s mysterious, otherworldly 1861 painting at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, reveals how the ...

Babylonian law also recognised psychological distress. The Code of Hammurabi set rules for the actions of a “confused” person and obliged family and temple to provide care. Early on ...

At one time, American evangelicals equated New York City with Babylon, the ancient site associated with power and corruption. Now, it appears, they have shifted their attention to Washington ...

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Veteran German producers Michael Polle (Babylon Berlin), and Mischa Hofmann (Spy City), are joining forces to launch a new production company, Polle ...

The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the ...

the characters they employed derivatives from the cuneiform symbols once in use in Babylonia. The proofs of his theory have been gradually placed before the learned world. In two articles ...