Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

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 ...

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.

and comparisons with other cuneiform texts. Scholars like George and Junko Taniguchi, who worked on decoding the tablets, have uncovered a wealth of information about Babylonian divination and the ...

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

The book is Hammer’s account of the deciphering of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. Cuneiform was invented in around 3400 BC in Mesopotamia. It was used for… ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

The existence of artificial eyes in Babylonian times has recently been proved by the discovery of a cuneiform inscription of about 1600 B.C., in which 22 artificial eyes, 9 of agate and 13 of ...

Near the start of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, there was a massive but largely forgotten battle between the Greeks and the Babylonians. Credit: wikimedia commons / Bazil Amin CC BY 4.0 About 2600 years ...