The British Museum reveals a fascinating collection of ancient artifacts that push the boundaries of historical understanding ...

Scientists believe they may have finally cracked the age-old question of whether Adam and Eve, as depicted in the Bible, ...

EXPECTATION of the importance of the results likely to be obtained by the joint expedition of the British Museum and the British ... Tell Arpachiyah in northern Mesopotamia under Mr. M.

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

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 ...

The British Museum has received a private collection of Chinese ceramics estimated at approximately £1 billion GBP ($1.27 billion USD) — the highest-value object gift in UK museum history.

London’s British Museum has just received the highest value object donation in British museum history. 1,700 new pieces have been added to the museum’s collection with an estimated value of £ ...

Scientists have deciphered the world's most ancient map that could help locate the remnants of ‘Noah’s ark’ in ancient Mesopotamia. Housed at the British Museum, a Babylonian artefact known as Imago ...

The “oldest map of the world…in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet has been deciphered, according to a recent video released by the British Museum. The plaque from the 6th century BC shows a map ...

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 ...

London: British Museum Publications and Dover Publications ... Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2016, 201-215. “The ...

The tablets became part of the British Museum's collection between 1892 and 1914 but had not been fully translated and published until now. In Babylonia and other parts of Mesopotamia, there was a ...