In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to ...

05/30/2025 May 30, 2025. Initiated 200 years ago, Museum Island was in ruins after World War II. Then the UNESCO World Heritage site was reborn thanks to a master plan.

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon, of which she is the legendary founder. Edgar Degas’s mysterious, otherworldly 1861 painting at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, reveals how the ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of ...

Babylon: Building boom A reconstruction of Babylon, ca 550 B.C., showing the Marduk temple complex and the Etemenanki as seen from the Euphrates River. Image courtesy of Album / Alamy Stock Photo ...

Israeli Judaism claims to represent all Jews worldwide, yet the Israeli government despises the vast majority of American ...

For centuries, the location of Alexander the Great’s tomb has remained one of the most baffling and captivating mysteries in ...

Clifford Brown Jazz Fest in Del., Fishtown Beer Fest in Philly and Food Truck & Music Fest in South Jersey are among weekend ...

The Cyrus Cylinder is often considered the first charter of human rights, inscribed with the words of King Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.

An event marking the anniversary of the founding of Israel held at the British Museum (BM) in London on 16 May has sparked anger among some members of staff—sources close to the institution have ...