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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'A king will die': Researchers decipher 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets predicting doom A team of researchers have successfully ...

Some of the most important pieces of art came from the Near East. We can see that in the last post with the religious art from the Sumerians. A lot of what we see in this time period —themes, styles, ...

(6) his master shall bring him unto the judges, and he shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. Hammurabi was the ...

Sometime around 1780-70 B.C., the Babylonian King Hammurabi promulgated the now famous Code of Hammurabi, covering both civil and criminal law. The code is said to have informed both Jewish and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Plaster cast of basalt stele with Law ...