A team of archaeologists may have discovered evidence of the biblical Battle of Megiddo, where Josiah, the king of Judah, was killed by Egyptian forces in 609 B.C.

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Babylon Town officials recognized the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Babylon Village during March, which the town declared to be Irish-American month. They issued a proclamation and have directed that ...

These fascinating ancient maps can teach us so ... Imagine pulling up Google Maps on your phone and being greeted with one of these… The oldest known map of the world is the Babylonian Map of the ...

View of the three-dimensional map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor. Credit: Dr. Médard Thiry Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

Credit: Antiquity (2025). Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, providing new insights into how early ...

This left the area dry and uninhabited, thus preserving the ancient landscape, unlike other parts of Mesopotamia where older irrigation systems were buried beneath newer canals or river sediments. By ...

and remote sensing technology to map the area. With the canals irrigating more than 700 ancient farms sometime between the sixth and early first millennium B.C., the farm sizes ranged from 5,000 ...

This breakthrough is already expanding the number of deciphered texts, shedding new light on the economic and social history of ancient Mesopotamia. But that’s just the start of it. Unlike ...

The first known records of soap-making date to Babylon around 2800 BCE, where ancient peoples developed crude cleansing agents. Early formulas combined oil and wood ash, creating a basic soap-like ...