The writing above the map tells of the creation of the Earth, and the map itself seems to give an aerial view of Mesopotamia. On the tablet, Mesopotamia is surrounded by a double circle that is ...

Historians have decoded inscriptions on an ancient tablet that is believed to be the oldest surviving map of the world. Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by text ...

Long before alphabets came into existence, human civilisations used different means to communicate such as images and ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched ...

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Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders ...

The Musée du Louvre aims to bring these treasures closer to the public with a new department of Byzantine and Eastern ...

Getting directions from Google Maps is one of your Wear OS smartwatch’s simplest and most effective uses. There’s simply no better option if you want to avoid pulling your phone out for turn ...

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Chicago's eastern boundary is formed by Lake Michigan, and the city is divided by the Chicago River into three geographic sections: the North Side, the South Side and the West Side. These sections ...