Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient ...

This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...

IT is clear from the seventy-five plates of cuneiform texts with which Mr. King has furnished his book, that he addresses himself mainly to the little group of cuneiform scholars who in England ...

The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be added to the United Nations ...

and investigating an ancient mystery. Could Nineveh be the home to a lost Wonder of the World? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. -World Wonders have got to say "Oh, wow!" to anybody who comes to visit.

The artistry demonstrated in each of the artifacts is a testament to ancient Babylonian visual culture ... was home to the Sumerians – one of the world’s first major civilizations.

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The video game is set to release worldwide on Friday. However, it comes as Kuwait still wrestles with memories of the Gulf ...