There are parts of the excavation site that date back to the Sasanian Empire of the 3 rd through 7 th centuries, but a majority of the best-preserved parts of the site are remnants of the Old ...

The resting place of Noah’s Ark—a ship said in the Bible to have saved two of every animal during an ancient Great Flood sent by God to flush evil out of the world—may have been located ...

Archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered the tablet in 1882 in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city in present-day Iraq. It now lies in the British Museum, and researchers finally think they have decoded ...

Based on other ancient Babylonian scriptures the word parsiktu typically helps to explain the size of a vessel needed to survive the Great Flood. Another passage also appears to show a path to ...

The word “parsiktu” is meant to help explain the size of a vessel needed to survive the Great Flood, based on other ancient Babylonian scripture. Another passage is believed to show a path and ...

In Mesopotamia, the ancient Babylonians believed the sky acted like a dome where the sun, moon and stars crossed it slowly from east to west. And although these explanations don’t work in the ...

I'm following instructions that were first written down by the ancient Babylonians 4,000 years ago, and still survive today. Every crease on the liver has a meaning, and cuneiform tablets ...

Dr. Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script at the British Museum, led the team that unlocked the ...