Only through the efforts of researchers from the British Museum was the knowledge inscribed on it unraveled. The map depicts Mesopotamia at the center, surrounded by two rings symbolizing water.

according to a recent video published by the British Museum. The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the ...

Photograph by BRITISH MUSEUM/SCALA, FLORENCE The discovery ... Scholarly and public fascination with the ancient culture of Mesopotamia had been steadily growing since the latter part of the ...

The British Museum The carvings have been called the Imago Mundi by scientists who say it shows ancient Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, surrounded by “Bitter River,” a double ring marking ...

The British Museum recovered more than 350 ancient artifacts ... They were invented in Mesopotamia, but it’s the ancient Greeks who make them into their own art form, and because the Greeks ...

Photograph by BRITISH MUSEUM/SCALA, Florence From then on ... Many of her new works, such as 1936’s Murder in Mesopotamia and 1937’s Death on the Nile, were colored by her new experiences ...

While the texts may not be great masterpieces of Sumerian literature, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, director of the Girsu Project, Sébastien ...