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 texts, written in cuneiform on clay tablets ... For example, while in the Babylonian version, Gilgamesh is presented as a tyrannical king who learns about mortality and wisdom through the loss of ...

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

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.

One of three clay cuneiform tablets discovered at the Middle Bronze Age ... a major regional center referenced in Old Babylonian monuments like the famed Stele of Dadusha, according to Earley-Spadoni.

It has gradually been pieced together, as the cuneiform tablets have been unearthed and deciphered ... the book also indicates the linguistic genealogy of Gilgamesh through its Babylonian, Akkadian ...

Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and an expert in cuneiform, takes a look at a 2900-year-old Mesopotamian tablet that contains a map of the world as it was known at the time. The ...