The Internet is busy drawing parallels between a Mesopotamian demon and Labubu, the quirky, wide-eyed collectible figurines ...

Claims that a popular toy collectible was actually inspired by a demon from ancient folklore circulated online in July 2025. Some users claimed that Labubu, a cute, fuzzy monster ...

More than a thousand years after it was last heard, an AI translator has brought a long-lost hymn to the ancient city of ...

Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, one of the cradle of civilizations and the birthplace of the first writing system. In the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC surrounded by deities worshipped in the Mesopotamian civilisation. The ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three Victorian amateurs were determined to solve the puzzle.

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some Bronze Age societies shifted from egalitarianism to more rigid class ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy. The ...

The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Writing Joshua Hammer. Simon & Schuster, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-6680-1544-5 ...

Many Hindu deities are actively worshipped in Japan, with hundreds of shrines dedicated to them. Deities such as Lakshmi, Shiva, and Ganesh are also present in the representations of Japanese culture.

Love and emotions have been universal themes throughout human history, expressed in diverse ways but with commonalities across different cultures and eras. A fascinating recent study reveals that ...