Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'A king will die': Researchers decipher 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets predicting doom A team of researchers have successfully ...

The Babylonians, who lived in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran), predicted omens by analyzing the time of night, movement of shadows, duration, and date of ...

Ancient astronomers were highly sophisticated observers of the night sky. Though they lacked telescopes or any kind of magnification device, stargazing is one of the only things you could do at night, ...

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by the ...

What it tells us about the past: This round clay tablet, which is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, is one of two dozen examples of ancient Babylonian mathematics ...

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, ...

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet actually contains a more advanced form of trigonometry than what we already use. Nathan Rousseau Smith (@fantasticmrnate) reports.

The Amarna Letters are not only a testament to the sophisticated diplomatic art of antiquity. Studying ancient diplomatic letters is a way to understand the past, interpret the present, and predict ...