The secrets held within the Babylonian tablet, considered the world's oldest map, have been deciphered. Dated from 2600 to 2900 years ago, Imago Mundi provides a unique insight into the beliefs ...

He further explained that the map also pushed beyond the boundaries of reality into the realm of imagination—a key element in understanding ancient Babylonian culture. The map even hints at a ...

Prime numbers have captivated mathematicians for thousands of years—and now cloud computing is helping them chase the biggest ...

"Rivaled only by the extraordinary astronomical records from ancient China, the Babylonian Astronomical ... 61 B.C. It wasn't only an 'arts and culture' problem when US war-vultures looted 17,000 ...

The bloody history of fatherhood bends towards co-parenting ...

Researchers finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets — and the messages aren’t about bright hopes for the future but are nearly all death, doom and gloom. The four clay ...

The artistry demonstrated in each of the artifacts is a testament to ancient Babylonian visual culture, and is helping researchers to piece together the trajectory of the region’s iconography.

Earlier scholars of those cuneiform texts concluded that the Book of Esther was retelling a Babylonian myth about Ishtar and Marduk. No such myth has been found to date, however, leading to an ...