There are parts of the excavation site that date back to the Sasanian Empire of the 3 rd through 7 th centuries, but a majority of the best-preserved parts of the site are remnants of the Old ...

Iraq had been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be added to the United ... the expression of the creativity of the Neo-Babylonian Empire at its height. "The city's association ...