World’s Oldest Recipes of Making Broth, Pie and Stew Detailed in Babylonian Cuneiform, Surprise Experts Like the present-day ...

A series of nearly 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets have long held eerie warnings ... In a new report published in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies, researchers George and Taniguchi detailed ...

Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet containing fragments of a lost Babylonian epic.

Mr. Smith writes: "Early last year some Arabs discovered a vault and chamber in the ruins of Babylon stored with some 3,000 cuneiform inscriptions. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records of accountancy ... medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian (related to modern Hebrew and Arabic) languages ...

Italian archaeologists working at the sanctuary of Tas-Silg on Malta have discovered an agate fragment with a Middle Babylonian cuneiform inscription dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century ...