Lunar eclipses were one such astrological event closely watched by those who advised Babylonian kings ... were almost uniformly bad news for the empire, though some signaled destruction for ...

Interestingly, both versions point to Ararat, a mountain in eastern Turkey, as this boat’s final resting place, with both Babylonian poems and the Imago Mundi referring to “Urartu,” Ararat ...

The tablets were likely written during the time of the Babylonian Empire, which existed from around 1890 BC until 224 AD. George and Taniguchi said people in the kingdom and in Mesopotamia ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago. The Imago Mundi (tablet) provided the ...

The tablets are believed to come from Sippar - a city that flourished during the Babylonian Empire in what is now Iraq and date back to the middle and late Old Babylonian periods from about 1894 ...

Considered the oldest in the world, it was created approximately 2,600 to 2,900 years ago, during the height of the ...

From ancient Babylon to the first modern-day national census, in Iceland, headcounts have been recorded on clay, in stone, as knots in cords. The first known census was conducted during the ...