Only through the efforts of researchers from the British Museum was the knowledge inscribed on it unraveled. The map depicts Mesopotamia at the center, surrounded by two rings symbolizing water.

now held in the British Museum, London, was found. Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia ...

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 b.c. and the first century a.d. Since so few scholars can read the languages ...

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

For many, the prospect of a career at the prestigious British Museum was unthinkable ... an expert in the cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, but also made a discovery that turned ...

In the British Museum we have a treasure-store of such ... two hard-to-learn languages and the whole of ancient Mesopotamia is at your feet.

From the private collection of Sir Hans Sloane in 1753, the British Museum has grown to become one of the world's most ...