This shows just how seriously these predictions were taken by the ancient Babylonian rulers. As researchers continue to work on translating this ancient cuneiform, more revelations like this will ...

Mr. Smith writes: "Early last year some Arabs discovered a vault and chamber in the ruins of Babylon stored with some 3,000 cuneiform inscriptions. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi ... and the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon. Labels written in cuneiform, an ancient text, note each location on the map, according to The ...

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet containing fragments of a lost Babylonian epic.

If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...