In the course of Koldewey’s excavations of the ancient city, his team identified a mysterious structure in one corner of Babylon’s southern palace. It was made of 14 long rooms with vaulted ...

In mid-October, the team—working on a dig in the Al-Fayadiya district—discovered a major section of ancient Babylon that spans two periods of the city’s development.

Archaeology & History Decoding Babylon: 4 Discoveries That Transformed Our View of the Ancient Empire. Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to ...