Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

"We are very aware of the strong feelings held, and respect people's rights to express their views. We can all agree that the ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Museum Island was in ruins after World War II. The UNESCO World Heritage site was reborn thanks to a master plan.

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

astonished many folk by declaring that he had discovered in the British Museum tablets which related to the pseudo science of astrological astronomy. And it is not surprising that such a ...

and two in the 17th century B.C.E. The Imago Mundi is a tablet from Babylon that was discovered in Iraq during the late 19th century. Currently kept at the British Museum under the stewardship of ...

Iraq is regarded as one of the most dangerous countries in the world, and the British government ... explore the iconic city of Babylon and the archaeological museum in Baghdad which is revered ...

One text tells how Babylon struggled to free itself from ... A third copy of the same stele, by the way, has long been in the British Museum but so mutilated that it could not be read.

In a video posted in August on the British Museum’s YouTube channel ... The tablet shows a circular world map with the ancient city of Babylon represented as a long rectangle.

In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city of Babylon. It dated back 3,000 years and contained a map of Mesopotamia ...

The ancient artifact, discovered in the Middle East, was acquired by the British Museum in 1882 but remained ... and tribes in Mesopotamia including Babylon, and another rectangle represents ...