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

A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

Researchers are shedding light on an ancient Babylonian tablet known as the oldest map of the world. The map was likely created around 2,600 years ago and offers a glimpse into the past.

Babylonia was often involved in rivalry with the state of Assyria in the north of Mesopotamia. It became a major power during the reign of Hammurabi, its ruler during 1792–1750 BC.

A CLEVER team of scientists have managed to decipher the world’s oldest map and claim it may show the location of “Noah’s Ark”. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet has puzz… ...

The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to the British Museum's Irving Finkel.

NIPPUR MAP TABLET. DATE: ca. 1500 B.C. MATERIAL: Clay. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches by 4.3 inches. FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been ...

The author, a historian brings to life the world of ancient Mesopotamia and the city of Babylon, ... Books History Physical description viii, 310 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 ...

Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to many of the world’s first great cities. The splendid city of Babylon, located between the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...