In the cradle of civilisation, illness wasn’t just a medical problem — it was a supernatural one. That’s why Mesopotamians ...

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

The Sumerians likely bartered palm ... depicts a deified ruler and the goddess Ishtar, invoked in matters of war, love and fertility, along with vanquished prisoners proffering plates of fruit.

These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study ...

Governors of Akwa-Ibom and Delta states, Umo Eno, Sheriff Oborevwori and ex-governor of Delta state, Ifeanyi Okowa, are of ...

Is there morality in politics? Or, should there be morality in politics? Governors of Akwa-Ibom and Delta States, Umo Eno, ...

its authors cite condemnations of homosexuality in the Christian Bible and ancient religious rites for the Sumerian goddess Ishtar, which scholars believe included gender-reassignment rituals.

Like all ancient Mesopotamian literature, the epic of Gilgamesh was lost to historical memory with the eclipse of the ancient cultures of Assyria and Babylonia in the centuries before Christ.