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 ...

Read more: A camel beauty pageant in the UAE Even in the new Iraq, Babylon faces ongoing threats. Only 2% of the ancient city has been excavated, but those buried historical treasures are ...

Babylon is one of Iraq’s most famous archaeological sites. Built in 1894 BC, its legendary hanging gardens were revered by the ancient Greeks and others as one of the Seven Wonders of the World ...

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 ...

I also explained that the once-so-powerful nation of Babylon — the country which we now call Iraq — will one day rise to become the most wealthy and powerful nation in the world, according to ...

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 ...

As NPR's Jane Arraf reports, archaeologists working in the ruins of Babylon in present-day Iraq are hoping to change that. (SOUNDBITE OF WATER SPLASHING) JANE ARRAF, BYLINE: Mohaned Ahmed is ...