Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

In English the word God is not the name of the one and only God. It is the generic term for any and every deity, similar to the West Semitic root word EL as it is found in Sumerian and Akkadian ...

“Archaeologists didn’t think such structures were possible; too much water would ... “gate of the gods.” Scores of temples served by a caste of priests catered to the Mesopotamian deities ...

It appears in the ancient Mesopotamian religions ... detail to the milieu of the Tree of Life. The throne of God is the origin of the water of life that feeds the tree. The tree produces twelve ...

Taken by her babeliness, the god transformed himself into a beautiful ... found in the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux. Sumerian and Babylonian cultures correlated the Taurus constellation ...

then improved electrification and water purification. "We're happy with the British," said one villager. "We have no problems with them, hamdilullah [thanks to God]." Peter van Agtmael/Polaris ...