the Babylonian language was used across the Middle East as a way of communicating across borders. The law code, while not the oldest in the Middle East, is one of the most famous. The city is also ...

Researchers finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets — and the ... but only now have been translated into modern language. The fortune-telling from the peoples of southern ...

Created to write the Sumerian language, the script was later adapted ... their place in the history of divination, astrology and Babylonian science," said George, an emeritus professor at SOAS ...

Four clay tablets found in Iraq over 100 years ago are written cuneiform, a form of writing language used in the ... written during the time of the Babylonian Empire, which existed from around ...