The Iraqi government has launched what has come to be known as "recovery diplomacy" as part of its efforts to recover looted ...

History is a vast tapestry woven from the stories of civilizations, great leaders, revolutions, and cultural shifts that have ...

Tablets containing economic and administrative content dating back to Third Dynasty of Ur, Old Akkadian and Old Babylonian ...

Türkiye's Culture and Tourism Ministry returned six cuneiform clay tablets Monday to Iraqi authorities within the scope of ...

A team of researchers led by Professor Enrique Jiménez of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) has succeeded in ...

A Trove of 500 Ancient Babylonian Treasures Was Just Unearthed The discoveries shed new light on life in ancient Mesopotamia. Examples of the cuneiform tablets found, and an aerial view of Fayadia ...

How 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablets help scientists unravel ... Just like it wasn't only an “arts and culture” problem when US war-vultures looted 17,000 Mesopotamian antiquities following ...

The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to the British Museum's Irving Finkel.

This is the story that inspires the Jewish holiday of Purim, which begins this year on the evening of March 23. Across the world, Jews retell the story of Queen Esther in lavish spectacles, called ...