The answer, it turns out, traces back 3,000 to 4,000 years, to the ancient Babylonian festival of Akitu, celebrated in April, ...

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 ...

The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be added to the United Nations ...

Persian rule left Babylon with most of its institutions intact, it became one of the richest satrapies of the empire, and it became one of the world’s most magnificent cities, according to Greek ...

The present work, which appeared in 1839, contains Rich's 1811 journal of his first visit to the site of the ancient city of Babylon, followed by the archaeological memoir he published in 1815.

From Babylonian kings to 21st-century gym memberships, the tradition of starting fresh on January 1 has ancient roots—and ...

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 ...

The rise of mathematics education in ancient Babylon corresponded to the time ... And these ancient people understood the Pythagorean theorem more than a millennium before the ancient Greek ...