A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

IN BABYLON Archaeologists uncover hundreds of 3,000-year-old artefacts – including stones etched with world’s oldest writing system ...

IN BABYLON Archaeologists uncover hundreds of 3,000-year-old artefacts – including stones etched with world’s oldest writing system ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been ...

Cuneiform script, developed in Mesopotamia around 3,200 B.C.E., is the oldest known writing system. Closely associated with the legendary kingdom of Babylon, this distinctive script—seemingly ...

Dr Martin Worthington, Babylonian language expert, discovered the promise 'food would rain from the sky' on the 11th tablet of Gilgamesh, 700BC, a Babylonian account of the flood.

The Epic of Gilgamesh: It’s a tale some 4,000 years old, passed down only in an extinct writing system of wedge-shaped characters on fragments of clay tablets. And now, scholars are deciphering ...

Ancient Babylonian tablet suggests Pythagoras did NOT discover the famous theorem - but only popularized it 1,000 years later. ... 'Writing this number in the base-10 system, ...