The script—not itself a language—was used ... a Semitic language that was the lingua franca of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires. CLAY TABLET. FOUND: Babylon, Iraq. CULTURE: Late Babylonian.

The Imago Mundi, the world's oldest map, has been re-examined by scientists who now claim it shows the exact location of Noah's Ark, the vessel that saved humanity from a great flood.

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 ... deciphered tablets written in Old Babylonian, a form of Akkadian ...