Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & ...

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

World’s Oldest Recipes of Making Broth, Pie and Stew Detailed in Babylonian Cuneiform, Surprise Experts Like the present-day ...

When four Babylonian clay tablets arrived at Yale University in the early 1900s, archaeologists struggled to translate the cuneiform script they contained. The tablets, each about the size of an iPad ...

The daughter of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus ... Other chapters explore cuneiform script (the world’s first known writing), cities, leadership, education (including some of the earliest ...

When four Babylonian clay tablets arrived at Yale University in the early 1900s, archaeologists struggled to translate the cuneiform script they contained. The tablets, each about the size of an ...

Scholars had only recently succeeded in cracking the code to the region's history: the complex cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script in which ... than enough Assyrian and Babylonian artifacts and ...

The book is Hammer’s account of the deciphering of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. Cuneiform was invented in around 3400 BC in Mesopotamia. It was used for… ...