R esearchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

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In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had genetic ties with Mesopotamian DNA.

The ancient empire that civilization forgot They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a ...

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WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

As is well known, the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell in 539 BC to the Persians under Cyrus II the Great, and Mesopotamia was never independent again; with Cambyses II, Sealand became just another province ...

Archaeology & History Decoding Babylon: 4 Discoveries That Transformed Our View of the Ancient Empire Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to ...

As kingdom after kingdom pledged fealty to what was now becoming the Mesopotamian Empire, he conducted military campaigns as shows of strength, and to annex the unwilling.