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 ...

The sun god Shamash was their witness. Everything was fine for a while, but once the eagle’s children were grown up, it ate the snake’s children. In revenge, the snake plucked the eagle’s ...

Iraq's foreign minister announced on Tuesday the retrieval of various artifacts and textured paintings from Japan and Switzerland. Minister Fuad Hussein, speaking from the Iraqi National Museum in ...

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 ...