The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Republic of Iraq announced preliminary findings from a collaborative research project into a copper-alloy sculpture from c 2500 BCE…
Sumerian Nanna was a derivative of the Canaanite Yarikh. The Moon god Yarikh had a special shrine at Jericho in the West Bank…
Ancient Mesopotamians worshipped Nanna as the moon god. Since months were counted by the waxing and waning of the moon and the soothing moonlight was seen as nourishing as compared to the hot sun, Nanna was regarded as the lord of time and a sustainer of agriculture, life and prosperity…
Most ancient religions had the conceptualisation of a great goddess who was associated with warfare and victory in battle. Mesopotamia and Canaan were no exception to this…
Asherah or Athirat was worshipped in ancient Mesopotamia, in Hittite and Akkadian regions, in Israel and in Sumer. She was a mother goddess associate with children, household and women…
Israel’s name carries within itself the name of El, meaning the “stride of El.”…
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