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

"You may have heard of King Hammurabi, who erected the famous ... a major regional center referenced in Old Babylonian monuments like the famed Stele of Dadusha, according to Earley-Spadoni.

It is also home to some very rare and interesting items, including a plaster cast of the Stele of Hammurabi, which, carved sometime between 1792 and 1750 BCE, is one of the earliest legal codes ...

Dating to approximately 1754 BCE, the Code of Hammurabi is one of the earliest known legal codes. Inscribed on a basalt stele, it outlines laws and their consequences, demonstrating the governance ...

Babylonia was often involved in rivalry with the state of Assyria in the north of Mesopotamia. It became a major power during the reign of Hammurabi, its ruler during 1792–1750 BC. But the ...

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...

Starting out as a modest city-state in the late third millennium BCE, Babylon rose to prominence under the rule of King Hammurabi (c ... inscribed on a large stone stele, which originally stood ...

Researchers finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets — and the messages aren’t about bright hopes for the future but are nearly all death, doom and gloom. The four clay ...

Lunar eclipses were one such astrological event closely watched by those who advised Babylonian kings ... B.C.E., roughly during the reigns of Hammurabi and his son Samsuiluna.