Of immense symbolic importance, Eridu was also home to the largest temple dedicated to Enki, the god of water and wisdom, a key deity of the Sumerian pantheon. For centuries, this shrine attracted ...

Photograph by Nico Tondini / robertharding.com Archaeologists have focused attention on two sacred precincts dedicated to Anu, Sumerian god of the sky; and Inanna, Sumerian goddess of fertility ...

And so, the game Nergal—named after the Mesopotamian god of disease—was born. The game’s animal-inspired social networks reflect a variety of group structures, such as Asian elephants, European ...

In Sumerian mythology, Venus is represented by the goddess Inanna – an allegory for the human experience of descending into the underworld, undergoing rebirth and subsequent transformative potential ...