Contrary to what its name might suggest, the Golden Gate Bridge is not actually painted gold. This famous landmark is cloaked ...

Researchers found that ancient Mesopotamians associated body parts with emotions, just as we do—but they discovered some ...

Jump in your time machine and set the dial for ancient Mesopotamia; you might find people gesturing to very different parts ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired the oldest known map of the world, which was carved into a clay tablet from Babylon and ...

Roughly 3,000 years before the first iPad, Babylonians carved a map into a tablet. This archeological treasure, which contains inscriptions and drawings that detail ancient Mesopotamia, is a great ...

The Babylonian map of the world is the oldest map of the world, in the world. Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, it is, like so many cuneiform tablets, incomplete.

The four brightest planets are still afoot. Venus and Saturn dot the southwestern sky at dusk, while Jupiter and Mars join ...

As an ancient identity left stateless, Assyrians stand as the most concrete example of this reality. From Mesopotamia to the ...

with body maps of Mesopotamians based on linguistic descriptions alone. Since literacy was rare in Mesopotamia (3000–300 BCE), cuneiform writing was mainly produced by scribes and therefore ...

CU Boulder is committed to making information available via assistive technologies. The campus map has known issues with certain assistive technologies that we are working with the supplier to resolve ...