A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world map, carved into clay over 2,600 years ago, combines geography, mythology, and cosmology in a way that reflects both the intellect and imagination ...

THE delightful certainty which characterises the youth of an individual not infrequently finds its analogue in the initial phases of a science. At the outset assertion is dogmatic inversely to the ...

The Babylonian flood myth that inspired the story of Noah's Ark may also include the world's oldest fake news. CLOSE. Thank you! We have emailed you a PDF version of the article you requested.

BABYLONIAN astronomy has been investigated during the last year successfully by the Rev. Joseph Epping and the Rev. J. N. Strassmaier, S.J., who have explained and annotated two Babylonian ...

In the Babylonian mythology, the ram is connected with the moon, the scales with the sun, and both moon and sun are male deities, Wenning underlined. “That might explain why Aries is here pictured as ...