When it came to religious education in ancient Babylonia, in what is now Iraq, students had a lot to learn, ranging from the names of gods to their divine characteristics. A new study published in the ...

A Babylonian pupil could learn the names of hundreds of gods without ever attending a religion class. In a new study published in Iraq, Shana Zaia shows how divine names, sacred places and proper ...

Ancient Babylonian texts reveal how Marduk was linked to Jupiter, the Sun, and constellations, turning the night sky into a ...

The building, dubbed 'Building 100', had once belong to an elite member of Jerusalem's society, until it was destroyed by fire in 586 BCE. Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a building that was ...

Tammuz was a Mesopotamian fertility god, Adar may have meant gloomy and several familiar month names came from Akkadian after the Babylonian exile; rabbis later found distinctly Jewish meanings for th ...

For at least 500 years, Babylonian children were tasked with memorizing a hymn that celebrated the city of Babylon, its citizenry, and chief deity Marduk. There was much to praise: the city was ...

Gojko Barjamovic not only deciphered the ancient recipes but also attempted to recreate some of the dishes described in them. Gojko Barjamovic, a lecturer at Yale University, along with a team from ...

The Babylonian Empire became one of the major powers in ancient Mesopotamia and played an important role in the region’s political and cultural development. Its influence can be seen through its ...

We’ve known since at least 1872 that the Great Flood detailed in Genesis is a descendant of earlier flood myths from Mesopotamia. And there may be some credibility to the occurrence of at least some ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

Our modern understanding of trigonometry harks back to ancient Greek astronomers studying the movement of celestial bodies through the night sky. But in 2017, I showed the ancient Babylonians likely ...

In the Marvel film Eternals you’ll hear lines of Babylonian being spoken. It is the first major film to feature this ancient Iraqi language, which was spoken from at least 2000 BC to at least 500 BC.