Near the start of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, there was a massive but largely forgotten battle between the Greeks and the ...

In Mesopotamia, ancient people associated the eclipses with the ... his death marked the slow decline of the Babylon Empire. 'The origins of some of the omens may have lain in actual experience ...

In this "world," the people inhabiting Mesopotamia ... intellectual and scientific advancement of that ancient civilization. - The ancient Babylonian map has given us a tremendous insight ...

Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built ...

A learned man, he restored the region’s ancient ... people might gaze on them in wonder.” Protected by MardukCalling down curses on anyone who defaces it, this ninth-century stela from Babylon ...

we also have open-minded people." Babylon is one of Iraq’s most famous archaeological sites. Built in 1894 BC, its legendary hanging gardens were revered by the ancient Greeks and others as one ...

Over time this tablet has become one of the most significant and most studied objects of the ancient world. Dr Daniel Mansfield, of the University of New South Wales, who has studied Plimpton 322 ...

IN the past six years our knowledge of the ancient Babylonian mathematics has been vastly increased, thanks mainly to the labours of Dr. Neugebauer. The impulse to his researches seems to have ...

The Akitu Festival was celebrated over 12 consecutive days during the Assyrian-Babylonian empires period with different rituals and activities on each one of those days The modern Syriac people ...

Saana Svärd is director of the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires ... the changes in the identities of bilingual people and how they were perceived during the Neo-Assyrian, ...