Dan Shamash is constantly living in the future. He spends every hour of his work week — and that sometimes means every waking hour of a day — trying to anticipate, prepare and predict the ...

the winged disk of the sun god Shamash, and a star symbolizing the goddess Ishtar.(World History Archive/Alamy Stock Photo) Ever since Assyriologists, who specialize in translating Mesopotamian ...

In Greek mythology, the lyre-playing God Apollo became associated with the sun. This statue of Apollo is at the Musei Capitolini in Rome. Shamash was the god of the sun in the Babylonian tradition ...

Inscribed in stone on a monument showing Hammurabi being blessed by the sun god Shamash, the code governed domestic disputes as well as crimes committed outside the home. Its purpose, he declared ...

The lost port city of Ed Dur, once buried in sand, was discovered in the 1970s in the emirate of Umm Al Quwain in the United Arab Emirates. The lost port city of Ed Dur, once buried in sand, was ...