Babylon was one of the most famous cities of antiquity. Babylon was one of the most famous cities of antiquity. It lies roughly 85 miles...

A priest in prayer before the symbols for Marduk, chief god of Babylon, and Nabu, god of wisdom and writing. Neo-Babylonian, 7th-6th BCE

This courtyard houses the impressive remains of the palace inaugurated by King Sargon II in Khorsabad (northern Iraq) in 706 BC. The...

Babylonian Mesopotamian Goddess Ishtar Ashtart Sculpture Statue - Louvre Museum, Paris. 2000 B.C. So common in the Mesopotamian area...

Commemorative stone stela in the form of a boundary-stone (kudurru): the stela consists of a small boulder, on one face of which a fiat...

The Eanna-shum-iddina kudurru is a boundary stone of governor Eanna-shum-iddina in the Sealand Dynasty of Babylon in the mid 2nd...

This stone tablet records the restoration of certain lands by the Babylonian king Nabu-apla-iddina to a priest. On the top of the stone...

Merodach-Baladan, King of Babylon, enfeoffs (makes a legal agreement with) a vassal. From the original in the Altes Museum, Berlin...

Babylon is the most famous city from ancient Mesopotamia whose ruins lie in modern-day Iraq 59 miles (94 kilometres) southwest of...

In 1945, on the southeastern outskirts of Baghdad, the ancient city of Shaduppum was discovered at Tell Harmal. Excavations soon got...

Pale white-blue chalcedony cylinder seal; Gilgamesh, on the left and his friend Enkidu, on the right, kill the Bull of Heaven while...

A NEO-BABYLONIAN CHALCEDONY CYLINDER SEAL CIRCA 900-700 B.C. A NEO-BABYLONIAN CHALCEDONY CYLINDER SEAL CIRCA 900-700 B.C. Showing a...

NEAR EASTERN NEO-BABYLONIAN MUSHHUSHU-DRAGON STAMP SEAL 626-539 BC A hardstone ellipsoid stamp seal with design depicting a standing...

NEAR EASTERN OLD BABYLONIAN VEINED STONE CYLINDER SEAL Early 2nd millennium BC A finely carved cylinder seal in red and white jasper,...

WESTERN ASIATIC NEO-BABYLONIAN CYLINDER SEAL WITH KILTED FIGURE 8th-7th century BC A pink chalcedony cylinder seal with intaglio frieze...

WESTERN ASIATIC OLD BABYLONIAN CYLINDER SEAL OF ZALAY, SON OF SIN-NASIR 18th-17th century BC A finely carved haematite cylinder seal with...

WESTERN ASIATIC OLD BABYLONIAN CYLINDER SEAL WITH SHAMASH AND INSCRIPTION 18th century BC A carved black hardstone cylinder seal with...

WESTERN ASIATIC MESOPOTAMIAN CYLINDER SEAL WITH CUNEIFORM TEXT Early 2nd millennium BC A haematite cylinder seal engraved with the...

WESTERN ASIATIC OLD BABYLONIAN CYLINDER SEAL WITH GODS 1900-1700 BC A slightly waisted stone cylinder seal; accompanied by an old...

WESTERN ASIATIC BABYLONIAN CYLINDER SEAL WITH LAMA GODDESS 19th-16th century BC A mottled red stone cylinder seal with three lines of...