BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

The Babylonian map of the world is the oldest map of the world, in the world. Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, it is, like so many cuneiform tablets, incomplete.

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Credit: JEHAN SHERKO / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists have found evidence suggesting that Kurd Qaburstan, a site located in the Erbil region of northeastern Iraq, may be the lost city of Qabra, an ...

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform ... Four newly deciphered tablets written in Old Babylonian, a form of Akkadian, have been ...

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Players are transported into southern Mesopotamia in the period of expanding irrigational ... setting adds its own distinct flair in ziggurat temple tokens and the map of Babylonia, impressive in both ...