Built during the rule of King Nebuchadnezzar II, the Ishtar Gate was a tribute to Goddess Ishtar. A replica of this gateway ...

Ready to travel back to a time when pyramids were the height of fashion, cuneiform was the hottest new script, and hanging gardens were all the rage? Buckle up your chariots and grab your clay ...

As the fertility goddess, Ishtar was often associated with eggs, which were seen as a symbol of new life and rebirth. In ancient times, people would decorate eggs in honour of Ishtar and give them ...

As the fertility goddess, Ishtar was often associated with eggs, which were seen as a symbol of new life and rebirth. In ancient times, people would decorate eggs in honour of Ishtar and give them ...

If wheels really were rare or even absent in Sumeria, then that would be a bit of a head-scratcher. The technology seems so blindingly obvious, so easy to make, so obviously useful and so ripe for ...

This gifted people lived at the head of the Persian Gulf roughly between 5,000 and 3,500 years ago. Their brilliant technological and social inventions laid the foundation of modern civilization ...

It also destroyed the lamassus - winged bull sculptures - in the nearby Ishtar temple and destroyed ... it revealed to the world the existence of the Sumerians, who invented writing 5,000 years ...

He has produced an interpretation of the remarkable seals which were found, with other relics suggesting an affinity with ancient Sumeria, at Mohenjo Daro and Harappa in the Indus Valley ...

The Sumerians are credited for several of the most fundamental human inventions: the wheel, large-scale architecture, and the earliest writing system—cuneiform. In the third millennium BCE, Sumer fell ...

The lyre was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Iraq around 3200 BCE. Its design was developed from the harp by replacing the single bow shape with two upright arms joined by a crossbar, and the ...