Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found ...

Cloudy with a high of 55 °F (12.8 °C). Winds SSE at 27 mph (43.5 kph). Night - Scattered showers with a 90% chance of precipitation. Winds from SSE to S at 12 to 25 mph (19.3 to 40.2 kph). The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...