When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

Pythagoras was a smart guy: sure, he had some pretty rogue beliefs about beans, but the man knew his triangles, something ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map.

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

What it is: A series of rock paintings depicting a group of people swimming ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is ...

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...

A Babylonian tablet which predicts future disasters has been completelydeciphered for the first time by experts. The 4,000-year-old artifact was found more than 100 years ago in Iraq, but has only ...

In this book, Monika Amsler explores the historical contexts in which the Babylonian Talmud was formed in an effort to determine whether it was the result of oral transmission. Scholars have posited ...

They are dated to about 1894 B.C. to 1595 B.C. The artifacts, a compendium of Babylonian astrologers’ observations of lunar eclipses, reveal a series of ominous predictions about the deaths of ...

Hammurabi, the sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon, is not only remembered for his famous legal code but also for ...