From the ashes of a shattered Assyrian world, a new empire arose under one of antiquity's most formidable rulers. This is the story of Nebuchadnezzar, the king who transformed Babylon into the ...

In the sixth century B.C.E., the Neo-Babylonian Empire was in a nostalgic groove. Its king, Nabonidus, led by example: he venerated the customs of the Sumerian ancestors who had ruled some 1,500 years ...