The world's oldest map has been deciphering secrets from 3,000 years ago, shedding light on how our forebears perceived their surroundings. Dubbed the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian artefact is ...

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A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on clay tablets, the Hymn to Babylon describes the ancient megacity in “all ...

A hymn dedicated to the ancient city of Babylon has been discovered after 2,100 years. Sung to the god Marduk, patron deity of the great city, the poem describes Babylon's flowing rivers, jewelled ...

AN ANCIENT hymn lost for 4,000 years on a Babylonian tablet has finally been deciphered using artificial intelligence (AI). Advances in technology made the discovery possible in a fraction of the t… ...

NASA's Curiosity rover explored Mars' Gale Crater, finding "boxwork" patterns and evidence of ancient waterways, providing clues about the red planet's watery past.

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel ...

Computer modelling past ocean conditions can help predict the location and age of carbon-rich mud.

Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it ...

The Italian Space Agency has picked European company Blue Skies Space to build a fleet of satellites around the moon to map the ancient universe.