Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & cosmology.

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

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 world ...

The daughter of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus ... Sumerian, the world’s first known language, was written in cuneiform – ...

The daughter of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus , Ennigaldi-Nanna was a priestess ... Sumerian, the world's first known language, was written in cuneiform – like the script on this clay tablet.

A new video from the British Museum highlights the Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map discovered on a clay tablet from Babylon. The babylonian oldest map, dating back to around the seventh ...

When four Babylonian clay tablets arrived at Yale University in the early 1900s, archaeologists struggled to translate the cuneiform script they contained. The tablets, each about the size of an ...

Against this background, the 'oldest recipe' at the time of writing is from Babylonia around 1730 BC, written on a clay tablet made in ... event to recreate ancient Babylonian cuisine based ...