THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...

Seals were most often made of stone but also sometimes of bone, ivory, faience, glass, metal, wood, or even sun-dried or baked clay. A recessed inscription was carved onto the cylinder, which produced ...

The cuneiform text labels the area as a spot 'where the Sun is not seen,' which made sense considering the mountains would have blocked it from view. 'Their location combined with the cuneiform ...

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium ... Which is why an eclipse of the sun or moon signaled that a great terrestrial figure would, in some way, be eclipsed: For ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

Researchers have managed to decipher four 4,000-year-old Babylonian cuneiform tablets that predict ... stuck between the Moon and the Sun. This itself only happens when the Moon is full.

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‘Dear World,’ the letter, included in a filing on Monday by federal prosecutors, begins: ‘This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you.’ The man says he was raised by a couple on ...

Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space. The sun unleashed an X1.3-class solar flare on Thursday (Sept.

A team of researchers have successfully decoded 4,000-year-old writings on ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets that had remained untranslated for over a century. The latest research focused on ...

Weibo users in China have reacted with fury after local media suggested disgraced swimmer Sun Yang could no longer cut it as one of the best in the world. Sun, 32, won the men’s 400 metres ...

This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing in the world. It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here ...