Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...

Dr. Sundeep Kochar elucidates the profound connection between the nine forms of Goddess Durga and the Navagraha during Navratri. He explains how each Goddess corresponds to a specific planet ...

What does it take to decipher an extinct writing system? If Joshua Hammer’s new book The Mesopotamian Riddle: An archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world’s ...

They’re going tit for tat. The state flag of Virginia has been banned in a Texas school district over the depiction of a Roman goddess with an exposed bare boob, according to a report.

This theory was based on the idea that by the early Bronze Age, Mesopotamian societies were ruled by kings and organized into social hierarchies. But the new study complicates that idea.

Relief carvings and elaborate inlay portray ordinary people, kings and, in some instances, the gods and goddesses that were believed to control every aspect of life. In the Mesopotamian world ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the environment to technology and archaeology. Laura is an editor and staff ...

Nigella Lawson has spent 25 years on screen as the Domestic Goddess. But the cookery icon has insisted she's far from a sex symbol, pointing out her 'lazy' beauty regime. 'I don't get the whole ...

Skeletons of sacrificed adolescents found at ancient Mesopotamian tomb (Başur Höyük Research Project/Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2025) Now, a new study published in the journal Cambridge ...