Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.

The original purpose of the Library of Congress was to provide unbiased research to members of Congress. Each year, the ...

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

Among the British Museum’s prodigious collection of cuneiform tablets and fragments ... So one of the striking features of the Bible story unanticipated in previously discovered Mesopotamian fragments ...

Cuneiform tablets discovered in Mesopotamia show that the ancient ... The issue then arises as to why the Bible only mentions a single “star” if they did not all merge into a single point of light.

Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and an expert in cuneiform, takes a look at a 2900-year-old ... Hearing that flood story clinched it for me — the Old Testament of the Christian bible is ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in southern Iraq, at a location known as Tablet Hill, stated Archaeology ...

The museum chronicles the evolution of the procurement function from the first goods receipt from Babylon written in cuneiform to the invention of the general ledger and double-entry accounting ...