The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world for centuries. At its height, it stretched from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, ...

Every story about descent starts with a pull, something that draws you downward, whether you’re ready or not. In Inanna’s ...

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

This is bad news for Zeus and Baal, but great news for his God. None of this is quite how Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, would have put it. But then religion-lite ...

Baal is first mentioned in a list of Mesopotamian gods in an inscription at Abu Salabikh, near Bagdad in modern Iraq. The name “baal” means “lord” and it is applied to a number of ancient ...

Never say die to the Ghanaian Baal prophets until they are shamed by the counter-prophesied general election results. In Ghana since 2008 or thereabout, many so-called prophets of God but indeed ...

Inanna – Mesopotamian goddess of war (and love ... epic double confrontation in the Egyptian underworld. 3. Baal – Canaanite god of rain, thunder, and fertility Baal is one of the most ...

“Her partner, Assi Meshulam – he is an artist and lecturer, specializing in Canaanite and Mesopotamian mythologies ... that’s Baal [king of the gods], Astarte [goddess of war, hunting ...

Sumerian Six, though, gets off to a rip-roaring start as developer Artificer sets the scene with pulp-comic panache. Following The Great War, a military scientist named Alistair Sterling assembles ...

What happened to the ancient Aztec, Babylonian, Celtic, Egyptian, Greek, Mayan, Norse, Roman and Sumerian gods and goddesses? God seems to be becoming diverse. With indifference towards religion ...

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 ...

By 2150BC it was enjoying a “golden age” under the priest-ruler Gudea, who ancient Sumerian texts declare was inspired in a dream to build a vast temple to the warrior god and Girsu’s patron ...