The map depicts Mesopotamia at the center ... Irving Finkel from the British Museum. Read also: Ancient world revealed: Babylonian map’s secrets uncovered ...

In the British Museum we have a treasure-store of such ... One hard-to-learn script, two hard-to-learn languages and the whole of ancient Mesopotamia is at your feet.

British Museum, London Photograph by ... The spread of the cult of Marduk across Mesopotamia was proof of Babylon’s prestige. No ancient city was so desired and feared, so admired and denigrated.

For many, the prospect of a career at the prestigious British Museum was unthinkable ... became an expert in the cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, but also made a discovery that turned ...

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 b.c. and the first century a.d. Since so few scholars can read the languages ...