Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (Dec., 1887), pp. 385-386 (2 pages) ...

Gojko Barjamovic not only deciphered the ancient recipes but also attempted to recreate some of the dishes described in them.

Babylon is an archaeological site which stands out as a unique testimony to one of the most influential empires of the ancient world. One of the largest, oldest settlements in Mesopotamia and the ...

Against this background, the 'oldest recipe' at the time of writing is from Babylonia around 1730 BC, written on a clay tablet made in what is now southern Iraq. Analysis of this clay tablet began ...

The location of Alexander the Great's tomb is the greatest unsolved mystery in archaeology. While there are many persuasive ...

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet containing fragments of a lost Babylonian epic.