IT is clear from the seventy-five plates of cuneiform texts with which Mr. King has furnished his book, that he addresses himself mainly to the little group of cuneiform scholars who in England ...

This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...

The tablet also confirms the Babylonian's belief in the God of creation Marduk and other mythical monsters such as scorpion-man and a lion-headed bird called Anzu. The ancient Babylonians had ...

The secrets held within the Babylonian tablet, considered the world's oldest map, have been deciphered. Dated from 2600 to ...

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by ...

How Jews live their lives on Earth is considered to be more important than a possible afterlife. Jewish scripture has very little to say on matters of life after death. This is because Judaism ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, also known as "Imago Mundi," is a significant clay tablet representing the oldest known map ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with Babylon at its center and surrounded by water ...

The 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kingship under the empires of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, ...

(CNN)-- 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 ...

The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be added to the United Nations ...