Protected by MardukCalling down curses on anyone who defaces it, this ninth-century stela from Babylon is dedicated to a priest of Marduk by his son. British Museum, London Photograph by Erich ...

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 ...

For over a hundred years, it remained undeciphered. Only through the efforts of researchers from the British Museum was the knowledge inscribed on it unraveled. The map depicts Mesopotamia at the ...

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 ...

In an ancient inscription called the "Cyrus Cylinder," now housed in the British Museum in London, Cyrus claimed that his troops faced no resistance when he took Babylon. "I went as harbinger of ...

The first inscription reached London in 1801 (the so-called “East India House Inscription”, now hosted at the British Museum). Subsequently, it was Claudius James Rich (1787-1821) who visited Babylon ...

However, as Dr. Irving Finkel, a British Museum expert, notes, it portrays Babylon as "tremendously extensive compared to ...

The first inscription reached London in 1801 (the so-called “East India House Inscription”, now hosted at the British Museum). Subsequently, it was Claudius James Rich (1787-1821) who visited Babylon ...

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.

London — London's renowned British Museum is facing an investigation by the United Kingdom's information watchdog over claims that it has not been transparent about a collection of sacred ...

The British Museum said Wednesday it fired a staff member who stole gold and jewelry from the museum. The pieces dated as far back as the 15th century BC and have yet to be retrieved, per the AP.