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

Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in Iraq have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple dedicated to Ningirsu, the Mesopotamian god of springtime thunder, the British Museum ...

Eridu and Hamoukar flourished in Mesopotamia. An ancient Babylonian myth claims that Eridu, a site located in southern Iraq, is the oldest city in the world and was created by the gods ...

The Dark Side of Ancient Mesopotamia ...

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 ...

There was no one Anonymous God, every god who listened and showed ... such as the one in Palmyra or the cities of Mesopotamia, or the Roman Empire,” Kubiak-Schneider explained.

As long as each human lives, the ghost of the dead god within them is signalled through the steady “drumbeat” of the pulse. Written sources reflect many types of Mesopotamian ghosts ...

Suddenly, the ancient Mesopotamian priestess ... Enheduanna’s work celebrates the gods and the power of the Akkadian empire, which ruled present-day Iraq from about 2350 B.C. to 2150 B.C ...