The Bible paints an unflattering portrait of Babylon as a corrupt civilization cursed by ambition, excess and power-hungry kings. In the Book of Genesis, its residents build the Tower of Babel in a ...

This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection/Age ...

On the banks of the Euphrates River, in what is now modern-day Iraq, ancient man began to build a tower with occultic purposes. In order to stop this evil, according to Genesis 11, God diversified ...

Architecture After God: Babel Resurgent, by Kyle Dugdale. Birkhäuser, 440 pages, $92. A similar feeling of bemusement and loss lies in the pages of Kyle Dugdale’s Architecture After God: Babel ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Starting with the name of the game and its potential link to the ...

In the third book of C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy, That Hideous Strength, the evil organization “N.I.C.E.” Is finally defeated when the spell of Babel is cast upon them and they can no longer ...

Babylon X is a third-person fantasy action RPG developed by Mighty Boy Studio. The game is set in an alternative history of the Ancient World where the Tower of Babel is being built and humanity faces ...

Father Barry Bercier of Assumption College in Worcester, Mass., has written a critical book about higher education in the United States. One of the key roles of a parent is to teach. Parents pass ...