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

Discover the oldest known recipe from ancient Mesopotamia, offering a fascinating glimpse into the culinary practices of one ...

Professor Kulakoglu explains that many of the words, although Assyrian in origin -- a Semitic language considered an ancestor ...

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

Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

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… ...

The figures emerge in a survey published by Bible Society, which reveals that young adults aged 18-34 are among those newly drawn to Christian beliefs after years of declining congregations The ...

This tablet is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest written customer complaint. Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform ...

Today, this Bronze Age clay tablet is the oldest customer complaint we know of ... written language are stocktakes and ledgers recorded in the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script. Since copper is a ...