A silver necklace believed to depict the goddess Ishtar, featuring a lion figure and an eight-pointed star, is unearthed at the 2,200-year-old Amos ancient city in the Marmaris district of Mugla, ...

MUGLA, 21 January (BelTA - Anadolu) - A silver necklace featuring a lion figure and an eight-pointed star, believed to represent the Assyrian goddess Ishtar, has been unearthed during excavations at ...

Long before the gods of Olympus, there was Inanna. As the supreme deity of the Sumerians, she was the original "Queen of Heaven"—a complex figure of both terrifying war and transcendent love. We trace ...

BABYLON, Iraq — On a mild winter weekend, the sun pours down on the yellow archways of the reconstructed palace of King Nebuchadnezzar II at the site of the ancient city of Babylon. Nearly three ...

View of the ruins of Assur, with the ziggurat in the background and the remains of walls and temples in the foreground. Credit: Fakhri Mahmood / Wikimedia Commons Investigations with coring samples ...