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. The four clay ...

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 ...

In the Marvel film "Eternals" you'll hear lines of Babylonian being spoken. It is the first major film to feature this ancient Iraqi language, which was spoken from at least 2000 BC to at least ...

How Yale University's 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets unveiled the world's oldest recipes. (photo credit: Yale Peabody Museum, YBC 4644) Gojko Barjamovic, a lecturer at Yale University ...

The ancient language of Babylonian can be heard for the first time in almost 2,000 years after Cambridge University scholars posted readings and poems online. Babylonian, one of the chief ...

Stef Conner recording, wearing a reconstructed Babylonian gold and lapis lazuli choker necklace. Stef Conner recording, wearing a reconstructed Babylonian gold and lapis lazuli choker necklace.

However unlike today’s trigonometry, Babylonian mathematics used a base 60, or sexagesimal system, rather than the 10 which is used today. Because 60 is far easier to divide by three ...

Cuneiform tablet detailing the daily life of exiled Jews in ancient Babylon (modern-day Iraq) 2,500 years ago, displayed at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem (photo credit: REUTERS) The world's ...

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy. The Babylonians lived from about 2,500 to 4,000 ...

Here, archaeomusicologist Richard Dumbrill reads his translation of an ancient Babylonian cuneiform text which is considered to be one of the earliest lullabies ever documented. Audio from The ...