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 ...

A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on clay tablets, the Hymn to Babylon describes the ancient megacity in “all ...

Researchers have deciphered ancient Babylonian tablets that predict future disasters. The 4,000-year-old artifacts were found more than 100 years ago in modern day Iraq but have only now been ...

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 ...

CODE etched onto an ancient Babylonian tablet has finally been cracked by experts – and the message contains a chilling omen. The research team successfully decoded the 4,000-year-old text bi… ...

First Revolving Male and First Revolving Female do exactly what their name suggests. (Image credit: Stellarium) Perhaps the most well-known indigenous mythology of the night sky relates to the ...