What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...

Inscriptions on a set of four clay tablets from the ancient Near Eastern civilization of Babylonia have finally been ...

Before his early death in 1876, he was writing a history of Babylonia for the 'Ancient History from the Monuments' series. Prepared for press by A. H. Sayce, it was published in 1877. Smith traces the ...

By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, of course, an eclipse occurred during his reign. Such an event foretold revolt, rebellion, defeat in war, loss of territory ...

Young Italian author Costanza Casati shot into The Times’ bestsellers list with her first novel Clytemnestra, respinning ...

The temple had been rebuilt three times. The first was when it had been destroyed in 587 BC by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia. The second was when it had been plundered and wrecked by Judaea’s ...

One more nail in the American Jewish coffin as delusional Jews turn to non-Jewish Doug Emhoff to be their savior. Opinion.

Religions, Vol. 13, Issue. 4, p. 362. Langin-Hooper, Stephanie M. 2023. Burying the Alabaster Goddess in Hellenistic Babylonia: Religious Power, Sexual Agency, and Accessing the Afterlife Through ...

A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers ...

Aniplex announced that the world premier for the Fate/Strange fake anime will take place in Los Angeles, California.

Last week, the New York Times featured an article about recently-translated cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylonia, circa 1900 to 1600 BCE. The tablets describe celestial events as omens ...