Babylon was a minor port city on the Euphrates River until the rise of Hammurabi, who made...
Babylon
The Hanging Gardens are the only one of the Seven Wonders for which the location is unknown....
Much Babylonian legal precedent remained in force through various cultures and survived to influence Romans. Introduction Babylonian law is...
The Babylon ruins, once the capital of Nebuchadnezzar’s empire, are among some of the world’s oldest and...
In recent decades, the site of Babylon has suffered considerable damage from problematic reconstructions of ancient buildings....
Nebuchadnezzar II, the Chaldean king, is supposed to have had the gardens built in about 600 BC...
Passing lion, brick panel from the Procession Way which ran from the Marduk temple to the Ishtar...
The top of the Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi / Creative Commons Hammurabi ruled through provincial...
Hammurabi (standing), depicted as receiving his royal insignia from Shamash. Hammurabi holds his hands over his mouth as a...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 06.19.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Rise of Babylon The Emergence of the...
The Plimpton 322 tablet. UNSW/Andrew Kelly, Creative Commons A 3,700-year old Babylonian clay tablet reveals an ancient method of constructing right-angled triangles that...
Creative Commons By Dr. Michael Fowler / 06.12.2015 Maxine S. and Jesse W. Beams Professor of Physics...