Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

He poured the drink, going from right to left, for all the other gods, drawing off sweet nectar from the mixing bowl.” It ...

Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research ...

The research identified parallels between Kahl’s iconography and smiting gods from the broader region. “Smiting deities are found across the Aegean, Anatolia, the Near East, Mesopotamia and Egypt—it ...

A new study links the ancient Arabian god Kahl to the Greek hero Hercules, revealing shared warrior imagery and cultural ...

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a ...

For thousands of years, demons have existed in mythology, religion, and folklore, taking on many different forms across cultures. From the malevolent spirits of Mesopotamian texts to the fallen ...

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a conjecture of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the legendary ...

Hundreds of administrative tablets dating back over 4,000 years have been discovered by archaeologists. The state archives of the ancient Sumerian site of Girsu, now Tello in the south of Iraq ...

Schliemann believed the vessels had been used either for ritual wine offerings to the Olympian gods or, more likely ... the ...