A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of ...

Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &c., in the British Museum. Part I. By L. W. King Printed by order of the Trustees. Pp. iv + 50 plates.

Babylonian mathematics had a base 60 number system, which we still use today to tell time — 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour. And these ancient people understood the Pythagorean ...

Interpretation from the cuneiform tablet. The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows a bird’s-eye view of Mesopotamia, the area known as the “land between the rivers” in modern Iraq. In ...

Cuneiform is the earliest form of writing, first used more than 5000 years ago—predating Egyptian hieroglyphics. Writers would press the sides of a reed stylus into a clay tablet to create a ...

Archeologists have deciphered the world’s oldest map in a Babylonian inscription nearly 3,000 years old and revealed a very familiar story. A map of Mesopotamia. The “oldest map of the world…in the ...

World News: The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with ...

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia ...