Whether it was the naval map of the British Empire or the map drawn ... on the Earth and the heavens. The Babylonian map, believed to date from around 500 BCE, is a clay tablet that depicts ...

Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In the 6th century BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of Nebuchadnezzar II, ...

It became a major power during the reign of Hammurabi, its ruler during 1792–1750 BC. But the Babylonian Empire quickly fell apart after the death of Hammurabi and was turned into a small ...

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. The deeper Babylonian ...

It became a major power during the reign of Hammurabi, its ruler during 1792–1750 BC. But the Babylonian Empire quickly fell apart after the death of Hammurabi and was turned into a small ...

from the ancient Sumerian civilization of 3000 BCE to the Neo-Babylonian Empire of 500 BCE. One of his biggest discoveries – you might call it the Sumerian equivalent of King Tut’s tomb ...