Tomorrow, the great American eclipse will sweep across North America. Millions will experience total darkness. It is an eerie and mysterious experience, even though at this point we know exactly what ...

When the Moon fully slips into Earth's shadow, a king shall die. So warns an ominous prediction from Old Babylonia, inscribed across several ancient clay tablets. For over a century now, these ...

Researchers 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 a ...

The Babylonians, who lived in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran), predicted omens by analyzing the time of night, movement of shadows, duration, and date of ...

Agnete W. Lassen, associate curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection, Eckart Frahm, professor of Assyriology, and Klaus Wagensonner, postdoctoral researcher (Yale University Press) The Yale ...

Around 4000 years ago, in the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, Ancient Mesopotamia developed the first written language of the world. On view until June 2020, the “Ancient Mesopotamia ...

Ninety years in the making, the 21-volume dictionary of the language of ancient Mesopotamia and its Babylonian and Assyrian dialects, unspoken for 2,000 years but preserved on clay tablets and in ...

Analyzing ancient texts on cuneiform, or clay tablets, may seem like an esoteric endeavor. Not so, say the scholars working on the Yale Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP). They argue that these are ...

On Monday, August 21, people living in the continental United States will be able to see a total solar eclipse. For an eclipse to take place, three celestial bodies must find themselves in a straight ...

The ancient site of Babylon in Iraq has undergone a lot of damage in recent years but archeologists hope it will still get special status. Babylon in ancient Mesopotamia was known as the site of one ...