IN the past six years our knowledge of the ancient Babylonian mathematics has been vastly increased, thanks mainly to the labours of Dr. Neugebauer. The impulse to his researches seems to have ...

The ancient artifacts were discovered more than 100 years ago in present-day Iraq and are a part of the British Museum’s collection but only now have been translated into modern language.

Written in Akkadian, the language of ancient Mesopotamia, these texts were used by Babylonian rulers to interpret celestial ...

The Akitu Festival was celebrated over 12 consecutive days during the Assyrian-Babylonian empires period ... documents telling the story of Akitu. Ancient Assyrians-Babylonians celebrated the ...