What it is: A cuneiform mathematical clay tablet with an incorrect answer Where it is from: Tell Ingharra, Kish (Sumer), modern-day Iraq When it was made: Old Babylonian period, between 1900 and ...

History may not repeat. But it does often rhyme. And that’s something the ancient astronomers of Babylon appear to have relied on when it came to foretelling the future. Famine. Plague.

Researchers finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets — and the messages aren’t about bright hopes for the future but are nearly all death, doom and gloom. The four clay ...

The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries, but in the past few weeks, experts have uncovered meaning. The clay tablet was discovered in the Middle East before ...

Several of these ancient scratch pads have been found at Kish and nearby Babylon, both of which were major areas of early mathematics education. While this particular tablet is blank on the back ...