Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Mesopotamian Goddess Ishtar Credit: google lens As the fertility goddess, Ishtar was often associated with eggs, which were seen as a symbol of new life and rebirth.

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers ... Babylonian landmarks built by Nebuchadrezzar II: the dazzling blue Ishtar Gate, now reconstructed and on display at the Pergamon Museum ...

The original Ishtar Gate (left, a 1980s replica ... “Turmoil descended upon the land,” mourned the Sumerian scribe. “The statues that were in the treasury were cut down . . . there were ...

Ishtar was an ancient Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, and war, and her worship involved celebrating the spring equinox and the renewal of life. Similarly, Easter is a Christian holiday ...