The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

the Behistun Inscription is a large rock relief written in several languages and was crucial to the deciphering of cuneiform script - one of the earliest systems of writing. Getty Images One of ...

In the waning hours of 2015, as we reflected on the images produced by a year dominated by Europe’s migrant crisis, the world hoped that policy changes might ease the burden on thousands of ...

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.

Inspired by Chinese handscrolls and NASA film of the moon’s surface, senior Logan Tullai used an 1800s technique to lead a ...

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

This cuneiform tablet found at the Alalah excavation site in Turkey likely served as a Bronze Age ... [+] itemized receipt for furniture. In the 15th century BCE, an ancient accountant recorded a ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet during post-earthquake restoration work at the ancient city of Alalah. The tablet, dating to the Late Bronze Age ...

He advanced the study of a millenniums-old mystery: why the moon appears larger on the horizon than it does high in the night ...

The need for faster writing led to simplification of the symbols, and pictures evolved into ideograms easily recognisable as the cuneiform script with its series of distinctive lines and wedges.

Have you seen photos of former president Donald Trump getting arrested by police? They’re fake. Or, at least they were at the time of this writing on Sunday afternoon. Images purporting to show ...

Striking new images from a recent expedition to the Titanic wreckage show the decay on the iconic ship's bow with a large section of railing now on the sea floor, as well as the discovery of a ...