"The Babylonian Map of the World is far more than a simple geographical representation; it's a cosmic diagram, blending geography with myth and religious belief," explains Dr. Alistair Finch, an ...

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

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 ...

In the first known interaction between the two nations, the ancient Persians freed the Jews from captivity in Babylon.

Former President Barack Obama’s appeasing financial largesse toward Iran paved the way for Iran to build its nuclear and ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

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 ...

After a controversial Season 4 launch, many Call of Duty fans are hoping to see Black Ops 6 make a comeback with the Reloaded ...

The name “Babylon” refers to the city in one of the most ancient civilization in the world, Mesopotamia. This city was a small settlement in the Sumerian region in about 4000 BC. The University of ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

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