BY AHMAD SHUAIBU Africa stands to gain invaluable insights from both the achievements and the eventual downfall ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

Considered the oldest in the world, it was created approximately 2600 to 2900 years ago, during the height of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Although its scientific accuracy cannot compare to today ...

By 1000 B.C., the Assyrians, who had established a powerful empire in northern Mesopotamia, gained the upper hand. But despite periods of stable rule, Babylon would always fall to someone else.

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the Persian Empire succeeded the Babylonian Empire in becoming the dominant power of the Near East. Drawing on the rich history of 'multi-national' empires that had dominated the region since the ...