Babylonian History and Surviving Sites
Babylonian history spans successive kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia, with Babylon becoming a major royal and religious center. Kings rebuilt temples, fortified cities and raised ziggurats: stepped brick platforms supporting shrines. Kassite rulers also established a royal center at Dur-Kurigalzu, while later Neo-Babylonian kings transformed Babylon and nearby Borsippa.
The sites collection connects these histories with excavated structures and surviving brickwork. Articles distinguish original remains, later rebuilding and modern reconstruction.
Explore Babylonian sites
Explore Babylonian cities and temple towers through their surviving brickwork and excavated plans, with articles explaining different building phases.
History and society
Babylonian History and Society
Babylonian households and cities depended on shared resources and institutions, which changed as successive kingdoms organized work and religious life.
- Babylonian Culture, Writing and Knowledge
- Babylonian Geography, Settlement and Languages in Southern Mesopotamia
- Babylonian Gods, Temples and Religious Institutions
- Babylonian History: Kingdoms, Empires and Foreign Rule
- Babylonian Kingship, Temples and Government: Institutions of Rule in Mesopotamia
- Babylonian Knowledge and Later Images of Babylon
Daily life
Explore daily life in Babylonia through the resources, work and relationships that sustained households and connected them with cities and temples.
- Babylonian Families, Gender and Household Property: Kinship, Marriage and Inheritance
- Babylonian Food, Cooking and Meals: Ingredients and Everyday Practice
- Babylonian Medicine, Healing and Patient Care
- Babylonian Towns, Houses and Living Conditions in Southern Mesopotamia
- Babylonian Work, Crafts and Leisure in Southern Mesopotamia
- Babylonian Worship, Household Religion and Festivals in Southern Mesopotamia