Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

Near the start of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, there was a massive but largely forgotten battle between the Greeks and the Babylonians. Credit: wikimedia commons / Bazil Amin CC BY 4.0 About 2600 years ...

Every week, The Post will bring you our picks of the best one-liners and stories from satirical site the Babylon Bee to take the edge off Hump Day. Want more of a chuckle? Be sure to click the links.

The Knights of Babylon commanded Carnival attention with a glittering parade followed by a masked ball in the New Orleans Marriott. “Just So Stories” by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) inspired ...

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy. The Babylonians lived from about 2,500 to 4,000 ...