A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

A scholar at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. has suggested that the "earliest ever example of fake news" exists in a 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet that describes the story of Noah and ...

Babylonian god used 'fake news' to trick Noah into building his Ark, claims new translation of 3,000 year-old tablet. Ea the Babylonian god tells Noah to promise 'food will rain down' in fake news ...

According to one early flood myth, the Babylonian god Ea sent a flood that wipes out all of humanity except for Uta–napishti (also known as Utnapishtim) and his family, who safely stow away on ...

Study: ‘Trickster’ Babylonian god used puns in ancient flood story British researcher says tablet telling the Epic of Gilgamesh contains the ‘earliest ever example of fake news’ ...

Martin Worthington studies Babylonian and Assyrian at St. John's College, Cambridge. He says whenever he tells people what he does, he's asked the same question, "What did Babylonian sound like ...

Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world map, carved into clay over 2,600 years ago, combines geography, mythology, and cosmology in a way that reflects both the intellect and imagination ...