Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

Following the conquest, the Kassites appear to have made an effort to win over the people of Babylon. "They brought back the statue of the major deity, Marduk, which had been stolen by the ...

Nabonidus was also known for his near-fanatical devotion to the moon god, Sin, whom he raised to the status of the most important deity in the Babylonian pantheon. This came at the expense of ...

the Babylonian god of creation, and other mythological creatures points to the cultural importance of storytelling and spiritual beliefs in understanding the world. The presence of these deities ...

The tablets likely originate from Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city southwest of what ... danger so that person would bear the brunt of the gods’ wrath — and eventually be killed — while ...

The gods made the peoples of Babylonia and Syria to be united with me in word and heart … they kept watch and fulfilled my commands in the remoteness of distant mountains and in the remote paths ...

each of whom imported their own native deities and idols to the Holy Land. More specifically, the people of Babylon brought their god Succoth Benoth, while the people of Cutha made images of their ...

In the Neo-Babylonian period, this would become a New ... queen of a hideous host who are hostile to the gods. He goes as far as to say that her apocalyptic imagery indicates the popular ...