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Archaeologists Discovered Sand Beneath a 5,000-Year-Old Temple, Traced Back to Mountains 30 Miles Away

A thick deposit of deliberately placed sand found beneath an ancient Mesopotamian temple is shaking up what we thought we ...
La Brújula Verde

An Unexpected Discovery beneath the Ishtar Temple in Assur Reveals the City’s Founding Date and Its Relationship with a Hurrian Goddess

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 ...
Hyperallergic

Looking at Enheduanna, the World’s First Known Author, and the Women of Mesopotamia

Cylinder seal (modern impression) with goddesses Ninishkun and Ishtar, Mesopotamia, Akkadian, Akkadian period (ca. 2334–2154 BCE), Cuneiform inscription: “To the deity Niniškun, Ilaknuid, ...