After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, military helicopters landed right on the site. The Polish military, part of the U.S.-led coalition, operated an army base in Babylon, building guard towers ...

As some of its walls crumble, preservationists are fighting to preserve the past. By Jane Arraf BABYLON, Iraq — Ammar al-Taee, an Iraqi archaeologist, picked up a clay panel fallen from one of ...

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 ...

In Babylon’s Alexandria, mechanic Jaafar Abu Mohammed revives Iraq’s past by restoring vintage cars into pristine condition. His family-run workshop preserves national heritage on wheels, despite ...

The site of Babylon was first identified in the 1800s in what is now Iraq. Later excavations, undertaken by the German archaeologist Robert Koldewey in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...

Project Babylon was Saddam Hussein’s audacious plan ... The project was abandoned as the Gulf War loomed and Iraq’s ambitions imploded. A judge used Trump’s own words to expose his real ...

Ancient records suggest that more than 4,000 years ago, at a time when the city of Ur (in what is now southern Iraq) was the center of an empire, Babylon was a provincial administration center and ...

Uruk, Ur, Meggido, Babylon, and Nineveh rose among the planet ... in southern Mesopotamia (near present-day Samawah, Iraq). Active from around the 4th millennium B.C., the city reached its ...

Climate change raises salt levels around ancient Babylon Salinity corrodes ruins of humanity's oldest monuments Archaeologist laments lack of government funding RUINS OF BABYLON, Iraq, Oct 28 ...

I travelled to Babylon, the oldest city ever to exist, and I met some incredible people, and ate delicious local food! Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com ...

It is precisely because the Mosul Museum director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah seems so composed during “Returning to Babylon” that his pain seems all the more acute, his anger just barely repressed.

Home to a wealth of attractions — including the ancient ruins of Babylon, the Mesopotamian Marshes and the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan — Iraq is often dubbed the “cradle of civilization ...