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 Gardens of ...

No ancient city was so desired and feared ... When the first-century B.C. writer Diodorus Siculus describes the walls of Babylon, he actually appears to be describing the walls of Nineveh ...

Carved onto a clay tablet around the 5th century BCE, it was uncovered in Sippar, an ancient city north of Babylon along the ... with references to "The Great Wall" found alongside one of the ...

The ancient city of Babylon is thought to be the first place where clay was moulded into pipes to channel waste away from dwellings. The earliest example of piping, knee and t-joints – thousands ...