King Hammurabi of Babylon came into power in 1792 B.C. after having defeated Rim-Sin. This ushered in the Babylonian period. Hammurabi ruled most of northern and western Mesopotamia. Under his rule, ...

The focus is on the long reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562BC) and his successors, ending in 539BC when the Persian king Cyrus invaded the city and brought the Babylonian empire to an end.

A Babylonian tablet dating back to 1500 B.C.E. inscribed with instructions on how to perform an exorcism may depict one of the oldest images of a ghost in the world, ... Art History ...

The approximately 200 tablets, which date to 572–477 BC, the time of the Babylonian exile under King Nebuchadnezzar, were discovered in modern-day Iraq, possibly during the 1970s.