Carved onto a clay tablet around the 5th century BCE ... imagination—a key element in understanding ancient Babylonian culture. The map even hints at a monumental structure, with references ...

Experts were also able to put a rough date on this latest discovery, and suggest that the findings could be between 3500 and ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Among the clay tablets are school texts, Rey says. “These are the remains of the scribal training process for the administrators of the state’s archives under Akkad imperial rule. It’s a ...

Works include Babylonian clay tablets, the Biblical Papyri and more than 250 different manuscripts of the Quran. Widely known as one of the mote notable museums in Europe, the Chester Beatty ...

Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals, offering a detailed record of the early Akkadian empire. These 4,000-year-old tablets ...

Works include Babylonian clay tablets, the Biblical Papyri and more than 250 different manuscripts of the Quran. Recent travelers described the library as a fascinating collection of cultural and ...

According to a report, Google Maps is the first app to support the Live Updates feature. As you can see in the image below, the Live Updates status bar chip is green. It immediately says that the ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...

A new species of dinosaur found at a Mongolian building site has the largest fully preserved claw ever found. The bipedal, herbivorous animal had only two fingers on each hand, which it may have ...