Researchers decipher Babylonian map showing journey to Urartu, believed to be the ark's resting place after the Great Flood.

New research traces Mesopotamian origins of writing back to trade symbols, shedding light on the evolution of written ...

In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

The Akkadians adopted the Sumerian system of writing but applied it to their own language — and Akkadian written in cuneiform ...

This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well ...

There are parts of the excavation site that date back to the Sasanian Empire of the 3 rd through 7 th centuries, but a majority of the best-preserved parts of the site are remnants of the Old ...

Cuneiform is the earliest form of writing, first used more than 5000 ... an empire ruled between 224–651 C.E—and the ancient Babylonian period—ruled between ca. 1894 and 1595 B.C.E. The ...

an ancient Babylonian city in present-day Iraq. It now lies in the British Museum, and researchers finally think they have decoded it. Curator Irving Finkel says that the cuneiform writing on the ...

Among the findings in Babylon there are tablets with cuneiform writing. Credit: Irak State Board of Antiquities and Heritage The second, deeper, and better-preserved layer belongs to the Old ...