In this two-part article, the author presents an overview of what various ancient textual artifacts “remember” about the earliest loan closings ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

As early as 4,500 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, for instance, gender-diverse people held important roles in society with ...

Iraq is one of the most historic places on Earth, home to ancient cities like Uruk and Babylon and the heart of Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates. Its location and oil wealth made it a ...

Two small clay cylinders, buried for roughly 2,500 years in the ruins of an ancient temple tower, have given archaeologists ...

Ancient Babylon had its final period of prosperity in the sixth century BC . Nebuchadnezzar, the son of King Nabopolassar, succeeded even more in reviving the empire .

Serdar Yalçin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Chaldea was an ancient region located in the southern part of Mesopotamia, in what is now modern-day Iraq. It was one of the oldest and most important centers of civilization in the ancient Near East.

I’m standing in a basement kitchen prodding at a sheep’s liver, looking for marks on its smooth surface. People crowd around to film the proceedings, since I’m here to ask a question that everyone ...

A parent reported a Babylon teacher’s "extremely disturbing" conduct with their daughter to the school district in 2017, one of three misconduct allegations the district knew of years before the ...

Aidan Winter is hard enough to defend. He is Babylon’s all-time leading rusher, after all. But when quarterback Kai Jankow gets rolling, the Babylon offense is almost impossible to stop. Jankow had 15 ...

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