In The Babylonian Legends of the Creation by E. A. Wallis Sir Budge, the reader is immersed in the ancient Mesopotamian myths of creation. Budge meticulously translates and analyzes various Babylonian ...

Ancient scripts were a window into the linguistic practices of people, which were influenced by their cultural setting. A fragment of a Sumerian tablet was proof of this, as a team of researchers ...

A team of researchers has deciphered an ancient clay tablet that reveals a previously unknown myth from Sumerian mythology, featuring a storm god captured in the underworld and a clever fox who might ...

A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a tablet (Ni 12501) dating to the Early Dynastic IIIb period (ca. 2540–2350 ...

The Lunar New Year begins today, bringing with it the year of the dragon in Chinese mythology in which the word "lóng" (掍), translates to "dragon" in English. But don't let the similarity fool you: ...

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