In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

Over time, our connection with these deities has evolved from devotion to embodiment, guiding us into connecting with “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 ...

Is Christianity a copycat religion?” It is an essential question that critics of Christianity often ask, and rightly so. After ...

AnuZigguratUruk #WarkaIraq #WhiteTemple Explore Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, where one of the cradles of civilization and ...

In the long sweep of human history, few things are as natural or as irrationally feared as love between two people of the ...

Neurospirituality crosses multiple disciplines to study how and why the human brain has a sense of the divine. Evidence is ...

Sumerian mythology states that Nammu, a mother goddess linked to the primeval sea, gave birth to two of the most important Sumerian gods: An, the god of the skies, and Ki, the goddess of the earth.

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.

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, ...