Iraq's military says its forces and American troops have killed a senior commander with the Islamic State group who was ...

"These newly reported discoveries [of mass graves] confirm our darkest fears. The people of Ukraine and the world deserve to ...

When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map.

The Taliban say gunmen have killed 14 people in a Shiite-majority area in central Afghanistan. It was one of the deadliest ...

The map was originally discovered in 1882 by renowned archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city in present-day Iraq. Although Rassam discovered the tablet nearly 150 years ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani says he plans to announce a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from the ...

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...