Can King Ninus of Assyria from Greek mythology be identified as a historical figure? This article examines the evidence.

Stories are always being put through the wash, and end up with a sock in there which was never there before.” It’s an old ...

Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & cosmology.

“Fire has a special sacredness in Yazidi mythology. Throughout historical ... which is the Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian New Year, and then the Yazidi New Year, which is the Chashambah ...

It was bizarre living in Dublin during my formative years, feeling both at home and out of place in the very country that was ...

the Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love, fertility and war. Though the names sound similar, there is no direct connection between the two. Another myth is that the date of Easter is determined ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

Within these boundaries, the map details several notable places, such as Assyria, Urartu ... the Imago Mundi is its connection to Babylonian mythology and astronomy. On the reverse side of ...

is by emphasising that Assyria is the mother culture, whence all other cultures come. In order to do this, they must explode the “myth” that it is the Greek culture that gave rise to Western ...

“The site was probably a key economic hub for the Kingdom of Israel and later the Assyrian Empire, both of which ruled ... Phoenician city of Tyre (in present-day Lebanon). Phoenician mythology states ...