Babylonian kings routinely sacrificed royal stand-ins to avoid eclipse prophecies. From the museum's collection of 130,000 ...

A learned man, he restored the region’s ancient architectural ... title of king of Babylon. More intriguingly still, a depiction of that Assyrian king found on a bas relief in Nineveh shows ...

Built during the rule of King Nebuchadnezzar II ... enticing visitors to the historic city of Babylon. However, the actual, ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as ... was victorious over this brother Shamash-shum-ukin of Babylon. Three Babylonian men on the left are followed ...