A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...

It's probably the first ever to be sung in ancient Sumerian and Babylonian, and it's hauntingly beautiful. One concrete answer to the first question: clay. Clay lasts. That's a good thing for ...

Photo: British Museum / Line drawing: James Fraser and Chris Cobb for The First Ghosts A tablet made in ancient Babylon around 1500 B.C.E. may be the earliest known depiction of a ghost ...

By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, of course, an eclipse occurred during his reign. Such an event foretold revolt, rebellion, defeat in war, loss of territory ...