The splendid city of Babylon, located between the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris some 60 miles south of Baghdad, was one of them. Unlike the many towns that fell and disappeared ...

Carved onto a clay tablet around the 5th century BCE, it was uncovered in Sippar, an ancient city north of Babylon along the ...

It dated back 3,000 years and contained a map of Mesopotamia that included Babylon, the Euphrates River, and other cities and ...

As babylon crumbled back into dust, a lesserknown city 225 miles northwest was breaking with the ancient religious traditions of Mesopotamia. On a bleak plain west of the Euphrates, Hatra began as ...