Although Babylon declined after Hammurabi’s death, its importance as the capital of southern Mesopotamia, now known as Babylonia, would linger for millennia. Monumental FollySaddam Hussein’s ...

The findings, published in the journal iScience, shed light on how the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, understood and expressed emotions like happiness, anger, and love.

several symbols engraved on stone "cylinder seals" were developed into signs used in "proto-cuneiform," an early version of ...