Minuscule artifact discovered at the Jerusalem-based Temple Mount Sifting Project may reference an official who worked for ...

Eridu’s status was legendary even in ancient times. Babylonians actually believed that Eridu was the oldest city on Earth, having been created by the gods themselves. That kind of reverence attracted ...

If an infant’s body (has) a lukewarm temperature, his head has fever, he feeds at the breast and then drools a lot, his teeth ...

However, the Babylonians were such a dominant culture in the Near East, especially in the sixth and seventh centuries B.C., that this, and many of their other notions of time – such as a 60 ...

Most non-Jews would say Jerusalem was lost twice because the Babylonians and Romans destroyed it. Both empires and their armies were very big and very strong. No one else could defeat them at that ...

We’ve never escaped the influence of the Babylonians. That there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 degrees in a full circle, are all echoes of the Babylonian preference ...

Written on four tablets, three of which date back no later than 1730 B.C., the recipes are considered to be the oldest known. And they taste pretty good, says a scholar who re-created them.

Current textbooks on the history of math say this invention took place around A.D. 1350. In the mid-14th century, mathematicians at Merton College in England who were referred to as the "Oxford ...

Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines Historical accounts and archaeology agree that the biggest villains of the Hebrew Bible were ‘different’—but how different were they really?