Babylonia was a state in ancient Mesopotamia, located in present-day Iraq. The city of Babylon, which you've probably heard of in songs and movies, was founded more than 4,000 years ago as a small ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago. The Imago Mundi (tablet) provided the ...

The two layers excavated dated to the Sasanian period—an empire ruled between 224–651 C.E—and the ancient Babylonian period—ruled between ca. 1894 and 1595 B.C.E.

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum of Art, is a luxurious introduction to the complex, symbiotic relationship between two rival maritime empires.

They are similar in content to Old Babylonian tablets translated a decade ago connected with Dur-Abiesuḫ, a fortress on the Tigris river near the ancient city of Nippur.

Ancient 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets finally deciphered - with ominous predictions Newly deciphered texts found on tablets around 4,000 years old predict death and destruction.

He’s Building an Empire Anyway. For years, dealer Stefan Simchowitz has been treated as a pariah by the establishment’s upper echelons. That’s not stopping him from building a vast art machine.

The first known census was conducted during the Babylonian Empire, in 3800 BCE. Along with human numbers, livestock and resources such as milk, wool and vegetables were tabulated and the data ...

Ancient Babylonians predicted death omens by deciphering lunar eclipses, a newly translated tablet revealed. The 4,000-year-old tablet said that the omens often foretold the death of the king.

Murdered Manhattan art dealer Brent Sikkema disinherited his estranged husband, a former male prostitute, from his multimillion-dollar estate before he died — and gave another ex-lover $1m in ...

Capital City Weekly This art form takes guts: Residents invited to participate in bear gut processing workshop “Ingenious” Indigenous art creates a Gore-Tex like material for raincoats and more.