The Iraqi government has launched what has come to be known as "recovery diplomacy" as part of its efforts to recover looted ...

Tablets containing economic and administrative content dating back to Third Dynasty of Ur, Old Akkadian and Old Babylonian ...

Türkiye's Culture and Tourism Ministry returned six cuneiform clay tablets Monday to Iraqi authorities within the scope of ...

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

These letters are preserved in the British Museum, and the original cuneiform texts have been published by the Trustees. Late Babylonian Letters. By R. Campbell Thompson.

Researchers finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets — and the messages aren’t about bright hopes for the future but are nearly all death, doom and gloom.

How 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablets help scientists unravel one of the weirdest mysteries in space Archaeomagnetism helps us understand spacecraft hiccups — and why the humanities are crucial ...

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.

Archaeologists, with help from artificial intelligence, have finally decoded 4,000-year-old writing on ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets predicting doom that have remained untranslated for over ...

Archaeologists, with help from artificial intelligence, have finally decoded 4,000-year-old writing on ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets predicting doom that have remained untranslated for over ...

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 ...