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 ...

Easter is the deepest demonstration of love, sacrifice, and power. It reminds me that absolutely nothing is impossible with God. As someone committed to prayer and practical wisdom, Easter is a ...

An exploration of some of the oldest temples in the world, shedding light on the lives of ancient civilizations and their ...

Assyria was a major civilization of ancient ... researchers found a monumental stone dais—a low platform for the statue of a god or goddess worshipped in the temple—featuring a cuneiform ...

The rotation of the moon and other planets provides a natural rhythm and framework for understanding time, nature and human ...

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 granted immortality after he survived a ...

Both shrines had a central dais, or “a low platform for the statue of a god or goddess worshipped in the ... In the decree, “the Assyrian king Adad-Nerari III (811-783 BCE) assigned this ...

Assyria, Babylonia, the Seleucids, and Rome could not destroy the Jewish religion partly because God and his people ... In Canaan the natives worshiped the goddess Anath, who, as we know from ...

But then in Snow White—the real one—the prince comes. And the prince’s love for her brings redemption. He awakens her to new life.” ...

A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

Parikrama is done differently for different Gods and Goddesses. And for a Parikrama to be complete, people usually look for the rules of the Parikrama, the number of times they have to do it ...