Considered the oldest in the world, it was created approximately 2,600 to 2,900 years ago, during the height of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Although its scientific accuracy cannot compare to today ...

It was the imperial bitch fest heard round the world. Two of Babylon's finest Frankenstein monsters dueling it out on live tv ...

The last Neo-Babylonian ruler, Nabonidus ... Following the devastation of the Antonine Plague (165–170 CE), the Roman Empire increasingly relied on barbarian immigration—Germans and Slavs ...

2,772 years ago today, the Neo Babylonian king Nabonassar ... by Ptolemy in Almagest to date the reigns of Babylon, the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the Hellenistic period, the Ptolemeic (no ...

Volker Bruch and Liv Lisa Fries reunite for the final season in the epic German period drama series, set in the weeks before Hitler takes absolute power.

Angie Stone, neo-soul singer and member of the pioneering all-female hip-hop group the Sequence, has died at the age of 63. The singer’s rep Deborah R. Champagne told TMZ that Stone died in a ...

The Tower of Babel was a symbol of the might of the ancient city of Babylon, but why does it no longer exist? Or did it ever.

According to the Bible, ancient Israel was, in whole or part, ruled by kings for less than five hundred years. David is ...

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Victorian and neo-Victorian literatures, as well as transnational film and television. Felipe is currently working on a monograph on post-Thatcherism in British cinema, and one on empire imaginations ...

In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon codified the death penalty ... and other cruel death penalties in the Roman Empire. In 438, the Code of Theodosius made more than ...