Sung to the god Marduk, patron deity of the great city, the hymn describes Babylon's flowing rivers, jewelled gates, and ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been ...

Iran has had advisers in Iraq in the past, especially in the war against ISIS. Now, Iraqi sources informed Arab media that ...

Israel has joined the many countries in the Middle East which all travel is advised against and high caution is recommended ...

Archaeology & History Decoding Babylon: 4 Discoveries That Transformed Our View of the Ancient Empire. Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to ...

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Discovered in Sippar, Iraq, the Imago Mundi stands as the oldest known map of the world, offering a fascinating glimpse into the Babylonian worldview over 2,600 years ...

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Discovered in Sippar, Iraq, the Imago Mundi stands as the oldest known map of the world, offering a fascinating glimpse into the Babylonian worldview over 2,600 years ...

Here’s how he redrew the map of the world. ... RIP: Alexander died in Babylon -- modern-day Iraq -- at the age of just 32 after a mysterious two-week fever. Karar Essa/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.

Here’s how he redrew the map of the world. ... RIP: Alexander died in Babylon -- modern-day Iraq -- at the age of just 32 after a mysterious two-week fever. Karar Essa/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.

Set in a dusty corner of a beleaguered Iraq in 1991, Babylon is a Black Ops 6 map I find so unpleasant that it takes all my will not to insta-quit lobbies that vote for it.