Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

Relief carvings and elaborate inlay portray ordinary people, kings and, in some instances, the gods and goddesses that were believed to control every aspect of life. In the Mesopotamian world ...

He poured the drink, going from right to left, for all the other gods, drawing off sweet nectar from the mixing bowl.” It doesn’t take long for the deities to soon begin laughing “irrepressibly” while ...

Ancient Egyptians worshipped many different gods and goddesses. The most important ones included Osiris (the god of the underworld who was later resurrected), Amun-Ra (the god of the sun), Isis ...

In Greek mythology, Eos was the goddess of the dawn. Though, like other primordial gods, she was not widely worshiped by the ...

Hindu mythology isn’t just filled with gods and goddesses it’s teeming with powerful animals that are not only companions but ...

“The concept of Dilmun is probably very, very ancient in Mesopotamian ideology and may ... legitimation of power,” Højlund says. “The gods brought kingship to Earth, represented by three ...

Abandoning Uruk, Gilgamesh sets off to discover the secret of immortality; he hopes to learn it from a distant ancestor, Uta-napishtim, to whom the gods ... Like all ancient Mesopotamian ...

In the days of Prophet Abraham, the religions of the Near East and India had hundreds of different gods, with hundreds ... root word EL as it is found in Sumerian and Akkadian, Ellil-Enlil ...