Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a ... 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon. Photo: Sepia Times / Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Yet to historians and archaeologists, Babylon is a real bricks-and-mortar place at the center of the ... 605-561 B.C.). Koldewey’s finds revealed an ancient locus of culture and political ...