The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in ...

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For years, thousands of clay tablets sat in museum drawers and digital archives with parts of their stories missing. Some ...

Room L.1932 and the entrance to the upper room L.1238 in the background, view from the SW, 2022 season. Credit: M. Jean et al. 2026 The results of a study show that scribes did not always refine their ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during excavations at a site in Turkey that could shed light on what life was like during the Late ...