They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

“Turmoil descended upon the land,” mourned the Sumerian scribe ... was dedicated to Marduk, the patron god of Babylon, whose name was too holy to speak. Nearby, rising 300 feet, was ...

As Iraq fitfully rebuilds, a groundbreaking exhibition is showcasing that nation’s rich roots in Mesopotamia, the region that gave birth to the world’s first urban civilization some 5,000 ...

Image: Ancient artwork from Nineveh, possibly depicting Marduk fighting Tiamat ... Furthermore, the bestowment of Enki with the title of god of wisdom is an indication of how advanced the Sumerian ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

New Yorker contributor Singh (Zoostalgia) brilliantly traces the evolution of shamanism across history. Exploring the practice’s psychological roots, he contends that shamanism Continue reading ...

But what is the Eye of Horus and what did it mean to the ancient Egyptians? According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the ...

The timeline of Mesopotamian civilization traces back to the earliest known human habitation, and these recent finds were made at Basur Hoyuk, a Bronze Age settlement that dates back to around ...

Dec. 4, 2024 — A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in ...

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Babylon in the third millennium B.C. Traditional ...

The book “Gods or Civilizations of the Stars?”, by António Alves, will be presented on October 20, at 17:30 pm, at the Municipal Library of Silves. An autodidact by training, António Alves was born in ...