The spread of the cult of Marduk across Mesopotamia was proof of Babylon’s prestige. No ancient city was so desired and feared, so admired and denigrated. But in the Hebrew tradition ...

Written in Akkadian, the language of ancient Mesopotamia, these texts were used by Babylonian rulers to interpret celestial ...

Besides positioning Mesopotamia, the tablet contains descriptions ... advancement of that ancient civilization. - The ancient Babylonian map has given us a tremendous insight into many aspects ...

Frankfort in his letter to the Times of March 26, constitute an addition of no little importance to the evidence linking up the early civilisations of Mesopotamia and the Indus valley, especially ...

Babylon, an hour's drive south of Baghdad, dates to ancient Mesopotamia. The city on the banks of the Euphrates River was the home of Hammurabi and later Nebuchadnezzar, who built the famous ...

If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...

Smith would go on to become the world's leading expert in the ancient ... history of Mesopotamia's long-lost Assyrian Empire and publish pathbreaking translations of the major Babylonian literary ...

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

Keywords: Babylonia, Akkadian, Achaemenid period ... His work on bilingual texts and multilingualism in Ancient Mesopotamia contributes to the questions of imperial and professional identities.