Michael Caine might have starred in many huge successes, but there was one film that did less well as a result of the strange ...

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

In the first known interaction between the two nations, the ancient Persians freed the Jews from captivity in Babylon.

Archaeology & History Decoding Babylon: 4 Discoveries That Transformed Our View of the Ancient Empire. Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Here’s how he redrew the map of the world. He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32.

The world's oldest 3,000 year-old map reveals how our ancestors understood the world. ... "The ancient Babylonian map has given us a tremendous insight into many aspects of Mesopotamian thinking.

However, NOAA considers the Babylonian Map of the World as the first known world map, adding that its features show "Babylon ...

The Babylonian Map of the World. | Fine Art/GettyImages. The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches.

Set in a dusty corner of a beleaguered Iraq in 1991, Babylon is a Black Ops 6 map I find so unpleasant that it takes all my will not to insta-quit lobbies that vote for it.