The report traces Lilith’s 3,000-year evolution from Mesopotamian night figures to a modern cultural symbol, outlining sources and context to distinguish mythology, folklore, and reinterpretations. It ...

In the figure of Enheduanna, we see a powerful figure of great creativity, whose passionate praise of the goddess of love ...

Long before the legends of Greece or Rome, the first great civilizations on Earth shared a haunting vision of the afterlife. Deep beneath the sands of ancient Iraq lies Irkalla—the 'House of Dust.' It ...

Archaeologists believe they've finally located the site of a long-lost city established by Alexander the Great - a thriving ...

Veiled faces, abstract motifs, and ancestral memory converge in Hussein Shikha’s art, where the past and present of Iraq ...

A newly decoded collection of 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets from Babylonia sheds light on this belief system, revealing the prophetic warnings that shaped the destiny of kings and empires. These ...

Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 years after they were originally discovered. Omens on the tablet threaten tragedies including famines, plagues, and invasions.

Various patterns of Antiquity, chromolithograph, published in... Various patterns of antiquity: 1-5 Assyrian: 1) Nimrud; 2) Nineveh; 3 - 5) Dur Šarrukin (Khorsabad). 6 - 15 Egyptian: 6) Ornament of a ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early communities harnessed predictable tides for irrigation, but when deltas ...

What do you know about Mesopotamia and its role in the Bible? Geography in the Bible may seem relevant only to children’s church school classes, but digging into the actual dirt of the places where ...

A fresh translation of a fragmentary Sumerian tablet has revealed one of the world's oldest surviving narratives featuring a cunning fox as an unlikely hero. The ancient clay tablet, designated Ni ...