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A work of art rendering the Tower of Babel in ancient Babylon. Credit: ThomasThomas. CC BY-2.0/flickr The Tower of Babel, written about by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, was said to “reach up ...

The ancient “Babylon Battery” challenges the conventional timeline of technological development. Introduction: an ancient electrical puzzle In the 1930s, a team of archaeologists led by Wilhelm König ...

After building a new palace and expanding the city’s walls (a task that allegedly took 15 days and is also considered a wonder of the ancient world), the king embarked on a more personal project.