Ancient records suggest that more than 4,000 years ago, at a time when the city of Ur (in what is now southern Iraq) was the center of an empire, Babylon was a provincial administration center and ...

As some of its walls crumble, preservationists are fighting to preserve the past. By Jane Arraf BABYLON, Iraq — Ammar al-Taee, an Iraqi archaeologist, picked up a clay panel fallen from one of ...

(CNN)-- The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging ...

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The site of Babylon was first identified in the 1800s in what is now Iraq. Later excavations, undertaken by the German archaeologist Robert Koldewey in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...

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LONDON — U.S. and Polish forces who used Iraq’s ancient city of Babylon as a military base caused “substantial damage” to the area, a British Museum report said. The report said U.S. and ...

BABYLON, Iraq – It was one of the world’s first, greatest cities – a place where astronomers mapped the stars millennia ago and kings created an early code of law and planted what became ...