Archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old sacred plaza in Iraq that was used for rituals to appease a Mesopotamian warrior-god. The team working at the site in Telloh believe it was used for feasts, ...

The Great Ziggurat of Ur rose above one of Mesopotamia’s most powerful cities, a major center of trade, religion, and royal authority founded around 5,800 years ago in southern Iraq. Built for the ...

Close up of the giant statue to the god Nabu stood at the entrance of the Temple of Nabu which is now housed in the Iraq Museum in Iraq. (Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP / CC BY-SA 4.0) Nestled in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it was made: The Neo-Assyrian period, circa 900 to 600 B.C. This small, bronze figurine is the best-known depiction of the ...

British Museum archaeologists establish that lost temple in Iraq is divinely mandated holy site Craig Simpson is Arts Correspondent for The Telegraph covering the major issues affecting British arts ...

A huge stone monument thought to have been built to honour an ancient god has been identified in Israel. Known as Rujum en-Nabi Shua’ayb or Jethro Cairn, the 5,000-year-old structure is in the shape ...

The divine procession ls led by Hadad, Mesopotamian god of storms (far right, clutching a trio of lightning bolts); the moon god Sîn; the sun god Šamaš; and Atargatis, the region’s goddess of ...