At its peak some 3,000 years ago, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon was the largest metropolis on Earth. Renowned for their literacy, the city's residents left behind stacks of cuneiform ...

Celebrating one of the world's most influential hymnbooks, Hymns Ancient and Modern published in 1861, we hear Australian composer Nicole Skeltys explain why she's begun writing hymns for the ...

AI takes care of deciphering ancient damaged inscriptions and difficult-to-read ancient characters, doing in seconds what would take an expert hours. A research team at Ludwig Maximilian University ...

The appeal of cuneiform was interesting to archaeologists, and Babylonian texts had a special attraction to it. A recent collaboration between the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and the ...

Against the backdrop of southern Oman's lush mountains, men in traditional attire chant ancient poems in an ancient language, fighting to keep alive a spoken tradition used by just two percent of the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- With ancient chants, hymns, and Bible passages, members of Sts. Constantine and Helen Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church laid the icon of the crucified Jesus to rest Friday ...

Beyond the city and its pastures, the hymn also reveals new details about the lives of women in Babylon AN ANCIENT hymn lost for 4,000 years on a Babylonian tablet has finally been deciphered using ...