“With its walls which still stand 12 metres high, covered with brick reliefs, it is the largest and most striking ruin of Babylon,” Koldewey wrote. Excavations of the ancient city resumed ...

Wall carvings in the ruins of Babylon in 1950. (Raymond Kleboe/Getty Images) Nebuchadnezzar's imperial frenzy of construction also produced the city's most celebrated monument, a construction so ...

The workers "who rebuilt the city wall of Babylon in the years 528–526 B.C. must have felt as though they were in the antechamber of hell," Kleber wrote, noting that ancient texts mention ...

A view of a dragon on the wall of the ancient city of Babylon near Hilla (Credit: REUTERS/THAIER AL-SUDANI) Once the wealthiest and most powerful cities in the world — indeed, a wonder of the ...

The ancient city of Babylon is a World Heritage Site, but it faces threats old and new. As some of its walls crumble, preservationists are fighting to preserve the past. By Jane Arraf BABYLON ...

Babylon was one of the glories of the ancient world, its walls and mythic hanging gardens listed among the Seven Wonders. Founded about 4,000 years ago, the ancient city was the capital of 10 ...

Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the construction of the outer city wall of Babylon [86.11.60] ...

Babylon has resonated in Judeo-Christian culture ... including digging a moat and building new city walls. Beautification projects were on the agenda as well. The grand Processional Way was ...