Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

It was beneath the palace’s throne room that his team recently unearthed the rare stone slab carved with the likeness of King Ashurbanipal, as well as two Mesopotamian deities—Ashur ...

A first effort: Akkadian Empire, Mesopotamia (2300 BCE) This is the earliest known ... Unlike his predecessors, he did not ...

What if the guiding narrative of 2,000 years of human history was a slow march toward the worship of money? A new book by ...