Marduk, or Bel as he came to be known as the new national god, provided a mythological representation of good over evil, law over lawlessness, a fitting metaphor for King Hammurabi's right to rule.

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn's Mesopotamian Underworld Inspirations . The underworld plays a key role in the story of Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn.Both gods and the souls of the dead reside in a ...

Scholars have found a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn praising the city, its citizens, and deity Marduk, with the help of A.I.

For example, in the second millennium B.C., the ancient Mesopotamian epic poem, "Enuma Elish," calls the chief god Marduk by 50 names: the names of those gods subordinate to him.

The little gods turn to Marduk, who agrees to go to war with Tiamat—giving him an opportunity to become chief of the council of gods. Marduk catches Tiamat in a net, blows a destructive wind down her ...

I mean that's what I call patriarchy. And a new pantheon for DC Comics, drawing on Sumerian and Mesopotamian gods, Ninurta is a god of farming, Enki a god of water, Marduk is the god of Babylon ...

“This is a prayer to the god Marduk,” says Finkel, who is assistant keeper of ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures at the museum, and one of only a handful of people in the ...