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 ...

P ythagoras was a smart guy: sure, he had some pretty rogue beliefs about beans, but the man knew his triangles, something ...

A Babylonian tablet which predicts future disasters ... but has only just been completely translated. Spread across four clay tablets, it contains 61 predictions including that a ‘king will ...

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 ...

George led a study published this month in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies that deciphered a set of four tablets covered in ... since the late 1800s. The clay slabs most likely came from Sippar ...

“The origins of some of the omens may have lain in actual experience — observation of portent followed by catastrophe,” Andrew George, an emeritus professor of Babylonian at the University ...

Researchers have finally decoded a Babylonian tablet thought to be the oldest map ... Empire was a global leader in architecture, culture, math and early scientific achievements.