The excavation, led by archaeologist Qahtan Abbas Hassan Aboud, uncovered 478 artifacts, including clay pots ... on clay as a form of signature. According to Ancient Origins, the excavation is far ...

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 ...

In the British Museum in London collections, there is an extraordinary artifact known as ... This belief in Babylon’s ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

Investigating the reign of Mesopotamia’s mosteccentric ruler ...

The Babylonian artifact, known as the Imago Mundi ... analysis of their work uncovered the Biblical reference within the ancient language. The back of the tablet acts like a key, describing ...

Standing at 4.8 inches tall and 3.2 inches wide (12.2 by 8.2 centimeters), this artifact is a prized possession of The British Museum, offering a tangible link to the ancient Babylonian ...

In mid-October, the team—working on a dig in the Al-Fayadiya district—discovered a major section of ancient Babylon that spans two periods of the city’s development. The find contained 478 artifacts ...