Every story about descent starts with a pull, something that draws you downward, whether you’re ready or not. In Inanna’s ...

Ancient Mesopotamian ghosts and demons are perhaps ... Once they were in the afterlife, the dead would journey to the underworld – but this was not necessarily a one-way trip.

“Innana abandoned heaven, abandoned earth, and descended to the underworld,” the poem ... Co-editor of Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia (2017), she shares with Middle East Eye that ...

New research into Ancient Mesopotamia suggests people kissed romantically 4,500 years ago. The finding would mean humans began kissing 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. The article ...

Here’s how it works. Ancient Babylon was an influential city that served as a center of Mesopotamian civilization for nearly two millennia, from roughly 2000 B.C. to 540 B.C. It was located near ...

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