The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the ...

The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world for centuries. At its height, it stretched from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, ...

A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple at the heart of the ancient city of Girsu, in southeastern Iraq. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The divine procession ls led by Hadad, Mesopotamian god of storms (far right, clutching a trio of lightning bolts); the moon god Sîn; the sun god Šamaš; and Atargatis, the region’s goddess of ...

In the Mesopotamian world, the gods owned the cities, and humans did their bidding at the behest of kings. One gallery is devoted to the world’s first empire, the Akkadian dynasty, ...

He is flanked by the ancient Mesopotamian gods Ashur and Ishtar, and they are followed by a fish deity and a scorpion man. The inclusion of these gods was a surprise, the team noted.

Sumerian literature included hymns, magic spells, morality texts, and myths about the gods. Early poems in Sumerian about a king of Uruk called Gilgamesh were later woven into an epic tale, a ...

A historian may have deciphered the meaning of a mysterious set of symbols found on temples in an ancient city built around 2,700 years ago. The symbols, made of glazed brick, were used to ...