R esearchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

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.

The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

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.

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia, shedding more light on the rise of farming in the region. Researchers, ...

“She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia ca. 3400-2000 B.C. at the Morgan proves the world's first author was a woman, not a man. And she wrote in the first person.

Ancient Mesopotamia comes alive in Moudhy Al-Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

Mesopotamia on Madison: The World’s First Author on View at the Morgan. No expertise is necessary to be drawn in by the promise of intimacy with ‘the first author of any gender to be known by name.’ ...

By 10,000 years ago, sea levels had risen by nearly 130m from their low point, and in this part of the world the climate was wetter, and therefore better for growing crops, than it is now.