Some of the most important pieces of art came from the Near East ... they’re still exactly the same as what our predecessors value. King Hammurabi of Babylon came into power in 1792 B.C. after having ...
A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ...
A 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Sumer reveals a student's math error on a triangle's area, marking a ...
The secrets held within the Babylonian tablet, considered the world's oldest map, have been deciphered. Dated from 2600 to 2900 years ago, Imago Mundi provides a unique insight into the beliefs ...
The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be added to the United Nations ...
The origins of ancient art can be traced back to our earliest ... The ziggurats of Sumer, the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, and the ...
Archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered the tablet in 1882 in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city in present-day Iraq. It now lies in the British Museum, and researchers finally think they have ...
In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ancient clay tablets revealed that Babylonian astronomers were more sophisticated than ...
The artefact is inscribed with complete cuneiform text - a system of writing on clay in an ancient Babylonian alphabet ... library of books on science, art, maths, medicine and philosophy.