Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

As a Canaanite god, Baal’s story comes to us in a set ... a northern Semitic language and written in the Mesopotamian cuneiform script. A number of documents were found in the archeological ...

Cuneiform culture lasted for nearly three millennia -- half ... Esarhaddon's chief exorcist complained about his workload: "The tablets are too numerous, God only knows when they will be written." ...

Thanks to a project backed by the Lombardy Region, Milan’s Ambrosiana Library has digitised an important collection of Arabic ...

Cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs started out as logogrammatic ... Brilliant, inscribed silverware is placed at the foot of the god by a new king. ‘They were very probably deposited in the temple of ...

From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the written records of the Sumerians, the earliest civilisations set the stage ...

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world.

Many geologists reckon that around 4000 B.C. a flood devastated what is now Iraq; archaeologists have dug up cuneiform tablets ... he relied entirely on God’s cryptic commands to Noah (Genesis ...

The stolen cuneiform inscriptions likely would contain a more in-depth ... Ningirsu, a prominent deity in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, was revered as the god of war and agriculture. According to ...