Babylonian god used 'fake news' to trick Noah into building his Ark, claims new translation of 3,000 year-old tablet. Ea the Babylonian god tells Noah to promise 'food will rain down' in fake news ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

A scholar at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. has suggested that the "earliest ever example of fake news" exists in a 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet that describes the story of Noah and ...

According to one early flood myth, the Babylonian god Ea sent a flood that wipes out all of humanity except for Uta–napishti (also known as Utnapishtim) and his family, who safely stow away on ...

“Babylonian gods only survive because people feed them. If humanity had been wiped out, the gods would have starved,” he said.

A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

Babylon, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, existed from roughly 2000 B.C. to 540 B.C. Skip to main content. ... "The Kassite kings restored the temples of the Babylonian gods, ...

The reason for this, Worthington argues, is that in ancient Mesopotamian mythology the gods need human beings in order to get fed. When humans sacrifice animals and burn their bodies, the scent of ...

Researchers finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets — and the messages aren’t about bright hopes for the future but are nearly all death, doom and gloom.

Explaining Ea's motivating for lying—or spreading fake news—Worthington said: "Babylonian gods only survive because people feed them. If humanity had been wiped out, the gods would have starved.

Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world map, carved into clay over 2,600 years ago, combines geography, mythology, and cosmology in a way that reflects both the intellect and imagination ...