A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Babylonian god used 'fake news' to trick Noah into building his Ark, claims new translation of 3,000 year-old tablet. Ea the Babylonian god tells Noah to promise 'food will rain down' in fake news ...

A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

According to one early flood myth, the Babylonian god Ea sent a flood that wipes out all of humanity except for Uta–napishti (also known as Utnapishtim) and his family, who safely stow away on ...

Scholars have found a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn praising the city, its citizens, and deity Marduk, with the help of A.I.

Babylon, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, existed from roughly 2000 B.C. to 540 B.C. Skip to main content. ... "The Kassite kings restored the temples of the Babylonian gods, ...

Researchers finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets — and the messages aren’t about bright hopes for the future but are nearly all death, doom and gloom.

The Babylonian Creation Epic the Enuma Elish describes how the world began with the mingling of the waters of the rivers (the god Apsu) with those of the sea (the goddess Tiamat).