Some of the most important pieces of art came from the Near East ... of Babylon came into power in 1792 B.C. after having defeated Rim-Sin. This ushered in the Babylonian period. Hammurabi ruled most ...
The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries, but in the past few weeks, experts have ...
These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him ...