Babylonian schools taught students about gods, rituals, and proper conduct as part of their training for religious and elite ...

Some 2,500 years ago, Babylon trained the sons of its wealthiest families without a single weekly hour devoted to the gods.

When it came to religious education in ancient Babylonia, in what is now Iraq, students had a lot to learn, ranging from the names of gods to their divine characteristics. A new study published in the ...

A Babylonian pupil could learn the names of hundreds of gods without ever attending a religion class. In a new study published in Iraq, Shana Zaia shows how divine names, sacred places and proper ...

Ancient Babylonian school tablets reveal how students learned about gods, myths, sacred cities and religious practices.

What we know about Babylonia is mostly derived from clay tablets. Tens of thousands of these cuneiform texts have been found in the last century and for some periods these tell us a great deal about ...