Babylon is known for Hammurabi's laws and its hanging gardens. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ancient Babylon was an ...

The site of Babylon was first identified in ... and was the crowning glory of the king’s homage to Babylon’s ancient Akkadian past. Pergamon Museum, Berlin Photograph by BPK/Scala, Florence ...

The ancient site of Babylon in Iraq has undergone a lot of damage in recent years but archeologists hope it will still get special status. Babylon in ancient Mesopotamia was known as the site of ...

View of the rebuilt walls of Babylon, a kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia, now located in the modern-day city of Hillah. The site of Babylon has been selected to be inscribed as a Unesco World ...

The United States has agreed to pay $800,000 to help rehabilitate the Babylon site, an Iraqi official said. "We were very disappointed when multinational forces took over these ancient sites as ...

The Great Gate of Ishtar which stood at the entrance to Babylon has inspired awe since the 6th Century BC. Amanda Ruggeri finds out why. When Antipater of Sidon, the Greek poet of the 2nd Century ...

The ancient city of Babylon is a World Heritage Site, but it faces threats old and new. As some of its walls crumble, preservationists are fighting to preserve the past. By Jane Arraf BABYLON ...

The most immediate threat to preserving the ruins of Babylon, the site of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is water soaking the ground and undermining what is left in present-day ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and while only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains intact, we’ve ...

Ancient accounts described the Babylon's gardens as having terraces ... Several storage jars were excavated from the site, but the strongest evidence is a cuneiform tablet unearthed there that ...

Assyriologist Irving Finkel investigated ancient Babylon’s relationship with the spiritual and occult. In particular, he looked at a cuneiform tablet from 1,500 B.C.E. which appears to offer ...

The stele was found at the site of ... cities in Babylon that were controlled by Hammurabi. After Hammurabi’s death, his system of laws became something of a classic in the ancient world ...