BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

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

People believed that 'events in the sky were ... his death marked the slow decline of the Babylon Empire. 'The origins of some of the omens may have lain in actual experience—observation of ...