A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

Many archaeologists believe the famed tower from the Book of Genesis may have had a real historical counterpart in ancient Mesopotamia. The Book of Genesis tells of an ancient city with a tower that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Moon fully slips into Earth's shadow, a king shall die. So warns an ominous prediction from Old Babylonia, inscribed ...

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, ...

The purpose of four ancient Babylonian tablets at the British Museum has long been a historical mystery, but now it turns out that they describe a method that uses figures on a graph to calculate the ...

With the internet’s raid on Area 51 behind us, those who still seek aliens may want to look towards the Marvel Cinematic Universe. New set photos from the set of The Eternals hint that parts of the ...