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Superintendents in the Sachem and West Babylon districts hailed results of Tuesday's budget revotes. While the plans stay within tax-cap limits, there are cuts ahead.
Ancient Babylon was an influential city that served as a center of Mesopotamian civilization for nearly two millennia, from roughly 2000 B.C. to 540 B.C.
Scientists have deciphered the world's oldest map -- and they believe it's led them to the location of Noah's Ark. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries ...
Researchers finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets — and the messages aren’t about bright hopes for the future but are nearly all death, doom and gloom.
Babylonian cities like Ur, Uruk, and Nippur, while part of the kingdom, were supervised by Assyrian governors. Thus, the extent of the Babylonian monarch’s powers was unclear, as Esarhaddon had ...
From tail-wagging agents of battle to divine deities, ancient Mesopotamia’s civilisations saw dogs as more than just pets.
They are similar in content to Old Babylonian tablets translated a decade ago connected with Dur-Abiesuḫ, a fortress on the Tigris river near the ancient city of Nippur.
Digital health company Babylon filed for bankruptcy protection for two of its U.S. subsidiaries last week, according to filings in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. Babylon is seeking Chapter 7 ...
After two centuries of scouring Babylon’s four-square-miles for proof of the wonder archeologists continue to debate the location.
The Ishtar Gate, named after a Mesopotamian goddess of love and war, was one of eight gateways that provided entry to the inner city of Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (reign 605-562 ...