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 ...

Inside the bitter river, small circles and rectangles represent different cities and tribes in Mesopotamia including Babylon and another rectangle represents the Euphrates river. “You have ...

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a larger middle class than previously thought.

Though Akkadian as a spoken language in Mesopotamia died out toward the end ... Greek scholars are known to have flocked to Babylon during this time to learn astronomy, and excavated tablets ...