A Leicester lecturer who attempts to predict the future by analysing sheep livers claims Cynthia Erivo will win an Oscar this ...

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

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

Among these discoveries are the first clay tablets with cuneiform writing found in the ... an important regional hub mentioned in Babylonian inscriptions, including the Stele of Dadusha, as ...

So what was the first recorded UFO sighting, and did it predate the mid-20th century, when reports of UFOs became more commonplace? Unfortunately, the answer isn't clear-cut, at least when looking at ...

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 ...

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 ...

With its handy alphabetic writing, Aramaic gradually replaced Assyrian and Babylonian cuneiform, becoming the lingua franca of the Middle East. It is still spoken today by many Iraqi Christians. We ...