A Babylonian hymn lost for over a thousand years was rediscovered. Experts pieced together the hymn using an AI model to decipher hundreds of cuneiform tablets in a Baghdad library. The library’s ...

Approximately 4,000 years ago, Babylonian emerged as one of the principal languages of ancient Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (present-day Iraq) often described as the ...

Researchers have rediscovered a long-lost Babylonian hymn from 1000 BCE, using artificial intelligence to piece together fragments scattered across the world. The hymn glorifies ancient Babylon’s ...

During the millennia in which cuneiform script was used, Mesopotamia saw city-states jockey for resources, empires grow and dissipate, and seemingly countless kings made and unmade on the battlefield.

Martin Worthington consulted for Marvel. In the Marvel film Eternals you’ll hear lines of Babylonian being spoken. It is the first major film to feature this ancient Iraqi language, which was spoken ...