Archaeology & History Decoding Babylon: 4 Discoveries That Transformed Our View of the Ancient Empire. Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to ...

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

R esearchers think they have found a depiction of Noah’s Ark on the 3,000-year-old Babylonian Map of the World. Also known as the Imago Mundi, the clay tablet has baffled archaeologists for over ...

The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to the British Museum's Irving Finkel.

Aerial photos have given a detailed view of the ancient Roman city of Altinum, sometimes described as the ancestor to Venice, thanks to its complex network of canals and rivers. Here, an animated ...

FASCINATING photographs show inside the abandoned Babylon built by Saddam Hussein – who called himself the “son of King Nebuchadnezzar”. Pictures show the dead despot’s visi… ...

PARIS: Researchers working for the United Nations cultural agency say the US military in Iraq inflicted considerable damage on one of the world's most important archaeological sites at Babylon.