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 ...

A procession of gods marches across the wall of what may have been a royal mausoleum near Hattusa, capital of the lost Hittite Empire. The ancient ... to the rivers of Mesopotamia and the waters ...

Marianna Simnett's 'Crowns' are cast in an alloy that would make the elaborate headpieces burdensome or even painful to wear.

Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

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 ...

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

AT ONE OF the earliest points of our recorded history, the remarkable culture of Mesopotamia ... gods as a kind of opposing twin for him. The two have great adventures together. At one point, ...

According to ancient Greek mythology, there are five ages known as The Ages of Man, during which time humanity reaches its ...

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.