Dive into The Code of Hammurabi, Mesopotamia's groundbreaking legal system. Discover ancient justice, its impact on society, ...

New York: Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, 2012. Pp. x, 310. Illus., maps, biblio., index. $27.99. ISBN: 9781250000071 Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization is a synthesis of the most recent ...

This article originally appeared in New Scientist. Stef Conner is a composer, performer, and musicologist with interests straddling classical and folk genres. She is working with a group that ...

The most important piece I've read in any newspaper all year was 's Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates (Guardian, April 2). The writing was stunning and the perspective, a very non-western ...

On Monday, August 21, people living in the continental United States will be able to see a total solar eclipse. For an eclipse to take place, three celestial bodies must find themselves in a straight ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...

The land between the two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, known as Mesopotamia by the Greeks and known as Iraq today, has 5,000 years of history and stories to tell. Tablets, reliefs, ruins ...

Approximately 4,000 years ago, Babylonian emerged as one of the principal languages of ancient Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (present-day Iraq) often described as the ...

Recent events in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey recall ancient and equally dramatic events in Babylon and Mesopotamia, whose lands these countries now occupy. A magnificent storyteller and a careful historian ...