BY AHMAD SHUAIBU Africa stands to gain invaluable insights from both the achievements and the eventual downfall ...

The British Museum has cracked a 4,000-year-old murder plot: Babylonian kings routinely sacrificed royal stand-ins to avoid eclipse prophecies. From the museum's collection of 130,000 Mesopotamian ...

In 1750 BC, King Hammurabi died at about 60 years old, and while his ancestors ruled for another 155 years, his death marked the slow decline of the Babylon Empire. 'The origins of some of the ...