Dr. Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script at the British Museum, led the team that unlocked the ...

The 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet has puzzled archaeologists for centuries with experts only uncovering the true meaning behind the mysterious relic in the past few weeks. The patterned ...

The tablets likely originate from Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city southwest of what is now Baghdad, according to the ...

In the Babylonian version of this tale, it is a man named Utnapishtim who undertakes this task. Finkel explained that this tablet demonstrated that “the story was the same … that from the ...

Researchers decipher Babylonian map showing journey to Urartu, believed to be the ark's resting place after the Great Flood.

Scientists have deciphered the world's oldest map etched in a clay tablet about 3,000 years ago, finding it features the location of 'Noah's Ark' among the drawings. The Babylonian artifact ...

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by ...

It is still widely debated if the Turkish mountain of Ararat mentioned in the Babylonian passages truly exists. The cuneiform tablet also confirms several other things to scientists. One of this ...

There are parts of the excavation site that date back to the Sasanian Empire of the 3 rd through 7 th centuries, but a majority of the best-preserved parts of the site are remnants of the Old ...

The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries, but in the past few weeks, experts have uncovered meaning. The clay tablet was discovered in the Middle East before ...