Tablets found by the British Museum and Iraq government’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage give a new insight into ancient civilisation (Ellie Atkins/British Museum2023) Red tape may feel like ...

Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 years after they were originally discovered. Omens on the tablet threaten tragedies including famines, plagues, and invasions.

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, ...

A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged at an archaeological site in Israel. According to ...

Most of us can do all of our shopping with the click of a few buttons, and while that’s certainly convenient, it can make it difficult to keep track when exactly that new armoire or bookshelf will ...

Few feelings can rival the rush of singing the words of a favorite song with friends and loved ones, whether it be in the car on a long road trip or in the pit section of a long-awaited concert. Music ...

Imago Mundi in 2024. (British Museum) In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have deciphered what is believed to be the world's oldest map--a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet that may reveal ...

IOUs, a note to a brewer, and the earliest handwritten document known from Britain — these are among the 405, nearly 2,000-year-old Roman waxed writing tablets archaeologists have unearthed and ...