A team of researchers have successfully decoded 4,000-year-old writings on ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets that had remained untranslated for over a century. The latest research focused on four ...

Five Nobel Peace laureates—King, Obama, Chief Luthuli, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama—have all cited Gandhi as an ...

Italian archaeologists working at the sanctuary of Tas-Silg on Malta have discovered an agate fragment with a Middle Babylonian cuneiform inscription dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century B.C ...

AI takes care of deciphering ancient damaged inscriptions and difficult-to-read ancient characters, doing in seconds what would take an expert hours. A research team at Ludwig Maximilian University ...

A recently deciphered 4,000-year-old clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia is putting a new spin on the biblical tale of the flood and Noah's Ark — and that's causing consternation among some Christian ...

The ancient clay tablet also reveals many unknowns about the Babylonians including mythical creatures and mystical lands A CLEVER team of scientists have managed to decipher the world’s oldest map and ...

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A clay fragment no larger than a postcard sat untouched in a Baghdad storeroom for ages. Now its words sing again, thanks to artificial intelligence that stitched it to 30 other scattered fragments ...

A Babylonian retelling of Noah and the Ark on a 3,000-year-old clay tablet could be one of the oldest example of fake news, a Cambridge academic has claimed. In the engraved scripture, Ea the ...

Ancient Babylonian astronomers were way ahead of their time, using sophisticated geometric techniques that until now had been considered an achievement of medieval European scholars. That is the ...