Researchers have just deciphered a series of Babylonian astrological tablets inscribed 3,800 years ago — and the results are truly ominous. Created in the ancient city of Sippar in present-day Iraq, ...

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world. Carved onto a clay tablet around the 5th century BCE, it was uncovered in ...

Those learning and using mathematics have long consulted tables of numbers. The ancient Babylonians used clay tablets for this purpose. Papyrus, parchment, and paper all proved suitable for recording ...