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Researchers Decode 3,800-Year-Old Babylonian Astrological Tablets And Find Ominous Warnings
Researchers have just deciphered a series of Babylonian astrological tablets inscribed 3,800 years ago — and the results are ...
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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...
U.S. troops accused of damaging Babylon's ancient wonder
The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...
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Ancient artifacts unearthed in Iraq shed light on hidden history of Mesopotamia
"We know quite a bit about Mesopotamian cities in the south ... and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace further supports this identification since the site must have been ...