During the millennia in which cuneiform script was used, Mesopotamia saw city-states jockey for resources, empires grow and dissipate, and seemingly countless kings made and unmade on the battlefield.

Approximately 4,000 years ago, Babylonian emerged as one of the principal languages of ancient Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (present-day Iraq) often described as the ...

Researchers have finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets, uncovering a series of ominous predictions based on lunar eclipses, a new study has revealed. The four clay tablets, ...

A poetic text nearly 3,000 years old has just resurfaced, bringing back to life a voice lost since antiquity. A Babylonian hymn celebrating the grandeur of the city of Babylon has been reconstructed ...