A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...
Researchers have just deciphered a series of Babylonian astrological tablets inscribed 3,800 years ago — and the results are ...
Persian rule left Babylon with most of its institutions intact, it became one of the richest satrapies of the empire, and it became one of the world’s most magnificent cities, according to Greek ...
No ancient city was so desired and feared, so admired and denigrated. But in the Hebrew tradition, Nebuchadrezzar was a tyrant, and Babylon a torment. The king had conquered Jerusalem in the early ...
Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built ...
IN the past six years our knowledge of the ancient Babylonian mathematics has been vastly increased, thanks mainly to the labours of Dr. Neugebauer. The impulse to his researches seems to have ...