The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows ... at the instruction of god lay beyond the bitter river on the backside of a mountain — the same mountain that Noah’s ark crashed on ...

The texts refer to a cosmic battle between Baal, who is now the lord of storms and fertility, and Yam, the god of the oceans.

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...