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 ...

The latter was an earlier, Sumerian goddess of writing, learning, and the harvest. She was also the patroness of scribes. Gradually, her cult spread amongst the Assyrians and Babylonians, where it ...

It's not impossible, but it would be hard for other mediums to capture a world set in the Napoleonic Era, mix that with Mesopotamian mythology, create a Flintlock Fantasy with a strong "Gods vs ...

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

In the Sumerian tradition, kingship isn’t tied to a permanent capital. It shifts from place to place, bestowed by the gods upon one city and then, at their pleasure, transferred elsewhere after a few ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...