Researchers have deciphered ancient Babylonian tablets that predict future disasters ... this revelation marks the first time the cuneiform has been completely translated and linked to ...

A series of nearly 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets have long held eerie warnings ... In a new report published in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies, researchers George and Taniguchi detailed ...

Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

Mr. Smith writes: "Early last year some Arabs discovered a vault and chamber in the ruins of Babylon stored with some 3,000 cuneiform inscriptions. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet containing fragments of a lost Babylonian epic.

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...

The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records of accountancy ... medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian (related to modern Hebrew and Arabic) languages ...