Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

Gojko Barjamovic not only deciphered the ancient recipes but also attempted to recreate some of the dishes described in them.

Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & cosmology.

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet containing fragments of a lost Babylonian epic.

When four Babylonian clay tablets arrived at Yale University in the early 1900s, archaeologists struggled to translate the cuneiform script they contained. The tablets, each about the size of an ...

Nanna. A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveals the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, ...

The human obsession with frightening creatures has given rise to ancient tales of dragons and werewolves, as well as to the horrors that stalk 21st-century screens.

Analysis of this clay tablet began at Yale University in the early 20th century, but at first, the cuneiform writing ... an event to recreate ancient Babylonian cuisine based on this recipe ...