A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...

The two layers excavated dated to the Sasanian period—an empire ruled between 224–651 C.E—and the ancient Babylonian period—ruled between ca. 1894 and 1595 B.C.E.

A major discovery in Iraq’s historic Babylon Governorate is a significant breakthrough in better understanding the evolution of the ancient city. There are parts of the excavation site that date ...