A team of researchers have successfully decoded 4,000-year-old writings on ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets that had remained untranslated for over a century. The latest research focused on ...

Among the Babylonian cuneiform tablets from the library of Amenophis IV (king of Egypt, 15th century B. C.) is one which records how Adapa, disturbed by the South-Wind while fishing, broke the ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

He points to classical sources that mention that Babylonian temples continued to thrive, and believes that they would have maintained scribes still capable of reading and writing cuneiform to ...

The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ... medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian (related to modern Hebrew and Arabic) languages could alike be ...

One of three clay cuneiform tablets discovered at the Middle Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan ... Another question is whether Kurd Qaburstan could be identified as the ancient city of Qabra, ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that ...

The Electronic Babylonian Literature (eBL ... of scholars have been trying to put together the works written in cuneiform script — one of the earliest forms of writing in human history.

The goal of the project is to propel the reconstruction of Babylonian literature by means of tool that allow the identification of the thousands of fragments of cuneiform tablets that sleep ...