Clay bricks from the building projects of ancient kings recorded a historical “map” of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, a new study has found. About 3,000 years ago, for reasons that ...

Prior to Nebuchadnezzar II, much of Babylon was made of unbaked bricks, but during the rebuilding program, "good baked bricks" were widely used, Olof Pedersén, professor emeritus of Assyriology ...

Yet to historians and archaeologists, Babylon is a real bricks-and-mortar place at the center of the vibrant Mesopotamian culture that it dominated for so many centuries. The Amorites, including ...

Archaeologists measured the magnetic fields found in clay bricks to determine the construction date of Babylon's Ishtar Gate. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This is partly due to simple geology. The sun-hardened mud bricks favored by Babylon’s builders have stood up poorly to four millennia of rain, wind, and earthquake. Humans, too, have played a role.

However, some of the most common cultural remains, such as bricks and ceramics ... astronomical records from ancient China, the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries are one of, if not the longest ...

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 ...

Photographed in the early 20th century, the walls of Babylon stretch out before the camera. Reliefs of animals, visible on the walls, would once have been decorated with glazed bricks. After much ...

As the Ishango bone, the Plimpton 322 tablet and other artifacts throughout history display, prime numbers have fascinated and captivated people throughout history. Today, prime numbers and their ...