The rediscovered lines also give rare voice to Babylon’s women, especially its priestesses. It describes them as devout and ...

The Hymn of Babylon had been lost for over 2,000 years until researchers used AI to piece it together from 30 clay fragments.

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

Sung to the god Marduk, patron deity of the great city, the hymn describes Babylon's flowing rivers, jewelled gates, and ...

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

Books Received Published: 07 June 1888 Old Babylonian and Chinese Characters A. H. SAYCE Nature 38, 122–123 (1888) Cite this article ...

For the past year, I’ve lived away from my home in America, in Rome, among the achievements and the ruins of 3,000 years. It’s made me deeply aware of the long arc of history, which saw the ...

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 ...

But the most familiar thing that comes from Babylonian astronomy is how we tell time. The Babylonians didn’t use a decimal system with units of 10 like we do.

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the world's oldest writing system. Show more Greg Jenner is ...

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the oldest writing system in the world. In the 19th Century ...