Socrates even spoke of his daimonion, a divine inner voice that advised him. Only later did “demon” acquire its moral stain, largely through early Christian reinterpretation of pagan beliefs. In ...

In Iraq, archaeologists have discovered two clay cylinders inscribed with the first known foundation text regarding the restoration of a ziggurat in the ancient city of Kish. Previously, ...

Gilgamesh, the builder-king of Uruk, and Achilles, the destroyer-prince of Phthia, represent the primal archetypes of the ...

During recent excavations in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq, a team of archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology uncovered an exciting ...

AT ONE OF the earliest points of our recorded history, the remarkable culture of Mesopotamia flourished, and one of its many versatile and precocious achievements was Gilgamesh, our first recognisable ...

Aerial view of the archaeological site where discoveries have been linked to the early spread of the Cult of Ishtar. (Mark Altaweel) Hidden beneath an ancient temple in Assur, Iraq, archaeologists ...

View of the ruins of Assur, with the ziggurat in the background and the remains of walls and temples in the foreground. Credit: Fakhri Mahmood / Wikimedia Commons Investigations with coring samples ...

The 5,000-year-old inscription in Wadi Khamila – without redrawing. Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Ludwig Morenz from the University of Bonn interprets it as a Announcement of the colonial claim of the ...

Researchers working at the ancient city of Assur in northern Iraq have uncovered new evidence showing that the earliest Ishtar Temple was built on a carefully prepared layer of imported sand, offering ...

Anahita was a goddess associated with water, fertility, wisdom, warfare, and eventually the planet Venus. During the Achaemenid dynasty in Persia, she became incorporated into the Zoroastrian religion ...

Ishtar is used for creating a merged patch for mods that edit certain data tables in Code Vein. This allows multiple mods that add standalone outfits, masks, accessory, ect to work together without ...