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 on ...

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A new festival celebrating the Ohio River and its role in American history is set to take over Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. America's River Roots Festival, a five-day festival kicking off the ...

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At its peak, the Old Babylonian Empire rose to be one of the biggest civilizations the world had seen–but what was daily life like? Along with the pioneering legal code of Hammurabi, a wealth of ...