The limited edition of ten pieces celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Meisterstück writing instrument with a tribute to ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by text in the ancient style of cuneiform which used wedge-shaped symbols, has unlocked an array of secrets.

Researchers have successfully decoded the Imago Mundi, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet considered the oldest known map of the world. The artefact, created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago, offers ...

Researchers are shedding light on an ancient Babylonian tablet known as the oldest map of the world. The map was likely ...

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Writing is humankind’s principal technology for collecting, manipulating, storing, retrieving, communicating and ...

This cuneiform tablet found at the Alalah excavation ... Lauinger and Türker began peering through microscopes at the writing after the Alalah excavation’s conservator cleaned the clay item ...

The cuneiform script used on the tablet is one of the oldest known writing systems, originally developed by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia. Akkadian, the language in which the tablet is written ...

These cuneiform texts were inscribed in Sippar, emphasizing the importance ancient Babylonians placed on celestial events as divine warnings. They trusted omens to foresee catastrophes and ...

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 ...