A sculpture of the ancient Mesopotamian goddess, Inanna-Ishtar, representative of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, justice, and political power, was taken down from a tree trunk after it ...

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 ...

For centuries, Gilgamesh has been thought of as the world’s oldest literary hero – but does that title rightfully belong to the ancient goddess Inanna? Gilgamesh, legendary warrior of ancient ...

Day and night, for three months, Sumer Al Hindawi carved away at a massive boulder from the Jordanian desert. He worked up to 20 hours a day on the dense halabat stone. What emerged from the boulder ...

Have you ever wondered how one goddess could represent both passionate love and violent war at the same time? In ancient Mesopotamian mythology, few figures were as powerful, feared, and fascinating ...