We’ve known since at least 1872 that the Great Flood detailed in Genesis is a descendant of earlier flood myths from Mesopotamia. And there may be some credibility to the occurrence of at least some ...

Study of ancient cuneiform cylinders reveals how Nebuchadnezzar II restored Kish’s ziggurat and linked his rule to Babylon’s ...

Steve Green's collection includes more than 44,000 pieces, including cuneiform tablet, pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls and rare illuminated manuscripts. "Scroll" through for more images. This ...

A Babylonian retelling of Noah and the Ark described on a 3,000-year-old clay tablet is one of the oldest example of fake news, a Cambridge Bible scholar has claimed. The Babylonian god Ea appears to ...

AP — At first glance, the ancient Babylonian tablets on exhibit for the first time at a Jerusalem museum look like nothing more than pockmarked lumps of clay. But the 2,500-year-old treasures from ...

Indeed, the Iraqi dictator was said to be so immersed in his novel-writing that he left much of the military strategising to his sons leading up to the 2003 war. He continued writing in prison, using ...

23:21, Thu, Jul 23, 2020 Updated: 23:21, Thu, Jul 23, 2020 The Bible is said to span at least 1,400 years of recorded history, though some estimates extend it as far back as 4,000 years and more.