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At one time, American evangelicals equated New York City with Babylon, the ancient site associated with power and corruption. Now, it appears, they have shifted their attention to Washington ...

Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon, of which she is the legendary founder. Edgar Degas’s mysterious, otherworldly 1861 painting at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, reveals how the ...

Veteran German producers Michael Polle (Babylon Berlin), and Mischa Hofmann (Spy City), are joining forces to launch a new production company, Polle & Hofmann Pictures, the pair announced Wednesday.

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Veteran German producers Michael Polle (Babylon Berlin), and Mischa Hofmann (Spy City), are joining forces to launch a new production company, Polle ...

Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ingenuity. Among these early cartographic marvels, the Babylonian Map of the World ...

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'A king will die, a nation will fall': Dark omens revealed from 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets Lunar eclipses in particular were seen as dark omens, such as the death of the king.

The Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires has published an annotated text corpus of some 6,000 Babylonian texts from the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. The texts have been ...

So when the Lydians and Medes saw the day turned to night, they stopped fighting, and both were the more eager to make peace. Those who reconciled them were Syennesis the Cilician and Labynetus the ...

Peter David has died at the age of 68. His wife, Kathleen O'Shea David, just posted on social media, "Since it is out there. Peter David passed away last night. We are devastated. More when I can ...