During the millennia in which cuneiform script was used, Mesopotamia saw city-states jockey for resources, empires grow and dissipate, and seemingly countless kings made and unmade on the battlefield.

Researchers have finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets, uncovering a series of ominous predictions based on lunar eclipses, a new study has revealed. The four clay tablets, ...

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, ...

Martin Worthington consulted for Marvel. In the Marvel film Eternals you’ll hear lines of Babylonian being spoken. It is the first major film to feature this ancient Iraqi language, which was spoken ...

This book discusses the alphabetic scribes (sēpiru) mentioned in Mesopotamian documents of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods - specifically, of the 6th-5th centuries BCE. The period in ...

A poetic text nearly 3,000 years old has just resurfaced, bringing back to life a voice lost since antiquity. A Babylonian hymn celebrating the grandeur of the city of Babylon has been reconstructed ...

13:34, Tue, Aug 13, 2024 Updated: 13:37, Tue, Aug 13, 2024 A huge archaeology breakthrough has been made after researchers successfully deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets, revealing ...

An ancient Babylonian tablet whose purpose has been a longstanding mystery reveals that the ancient Mesopotamian civilization beat the Greeks to the discovery of trigonometry by more than 1,000 years, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ancient Babylonian astronomers were way ahead of their time, using sophisticated geometric techniques that until now had been considered an achievement of medieval European ...