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 ...

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 ...

It pictured the god Thoth giving laws to Menes for Egypt, the god Shamash giving Hammurabi a code for Babylonia, Yahveh giving the Ten Commandments to Moses for the Jews, and the divine nymph ...