They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

British anthropologist Dr Paul Warner claims to have found the body of Jesus Christ and the Ark of the Covenant in a hidden double-cave under the Great Pyramid of Egypt ...

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed ... of a vast flood in ancient Mesopotamia, complete with a ...

As Iraq fitfully rebuilds, a groundbreaking exhibition is showcasing that nation’s rich roots in Mesopotamia ... Numerous cuneiform tablets relate tales, such as that of the great flood ...

The British Museum, renowned for its vast and diverse collection of over eight million artifacts, continues to draw global ...

The body of Jesus Christ and the Ark of the Covenant may be hidden in a 'Cave of the Patriarchs', according to extraordinary ...

But there is much more. The written legacy of ancient Mesopotamia is inscribed in the cuneiform script on clay tablets. Cuneiform tablets and fragments began to be discovered in large numbers in the ...

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

According to archaeology news site Ancient Origins, the Sumerian tablet was first uncovered at the site of the city of Uruk located in ancient Mesopotamia, which is in present-day Iraq. It was part of ...