Detailed discussion of Babylon, the most famous city from ancient Mesopotamia. Learn about its history, King Hammurabi, the Assyrians, the Chaldeans, Nebuchadnezzar, the Persian conquest, and Babylon's decline.

This resource offers an in-depth understanding of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. This article authenticates the research by quoting a Greek geographer Strabo, and a Greek historian, Diodorus Siculus.

This article discusses the controversy around the actual location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, or if they even existed at all.

Study the Babylonians accomplishments in astronomy. This early civilization developed a calendar and were able to predict near-future events based on the reading of the stars. Scroll through a story and engage in a challenge reinforcing...

This is an online study guide/notes for the apocalyptic novel Alas Babylon by Pat Frank including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

This lecture from 1916 on the legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition contains some very useful information on Hebrew traditions.

The author of this blog entry discusses the theory that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon mentioned in the Bible and generally attributed to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon may have actually been built by King Sennacherib of Assyria at his...

Read about one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous short stories Babylon Revisited. Find out about the interesting characters and what they have to say.

This site from the company called Interhack has a short description of the Tower of Babylon and the confusion of tongues. This is an excerpt taken from the book "Antiquities of the Jews" by Flavius Josephus.

Hammurabi led Babylon during a period of great prosperity due to its proximity to trade routes. Study how he controlled his empire and created a set of laws based on social class. Included is a bibliography and pictures.

Try and put together a scrambled picture of a striding lion which is artwork from Ancient Babylon.

View the famous Striding Lion from Ancient Babylon and discover interesting history and facts.

A detailed article on the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon can be found here. Why they were built, how the garden received water, and the exact measurements of the garden are among the topics discussed in the article.

A discussion of the number system used by the ancient Babylonians. Examples are provided for various mathematical operations based on the number 60 (our number system is based on the number ten).

Describes the fall of Israel and Judah to the Babylonians in 721 BC, and 586 BC. Includes map.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students use primary sources, excerpts from Hammurabi's Code to determine religious, economic, and cultural characteristics of ancient Babylon.

Take a virtual tour through the Pergamon Museum located on Museum Island in Berlin. This world famous museum has life-size, reconstructed monuments from ancient civilizations, including the Pergamon Altar of Zeus, the Roman Market Gate...

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The remains of the ancient city of Babylon.

A city plan of Babylon in the Chaldean Age or Neo-Babylonian Empire, at the time of Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BC). The plan shows the city walls, canals, roads, the Euphrates River, the Palace of Nebuchadnezzar, and the Ishtar Gate.

Babylon is said, by some writers, to have owed its foundation to Queen Semiramis, a person whose history, as it is handed down by tradition, seems to consist rather of entertaining fictions than substantial realities. By other authors,...

Designed as an online companion for instructors using the Heath Anthology, this site focuses on "Babylon Revisited" and "May Day" (two stories found in the anthology). It discusses classroom strategies for teaching Fitzgerald, along with...

In describing the process of mezzotint, this site uses John Martin's Fall of Babylon as an example. The process involves artistically scraping and burnishing a metal plate to form art when printed.