Even Enki, the Mesopotamian god of wisdom (and father of Ninkasi), was known to get drunk occasionally. Mesopotamians invented beer 300 years before inventing money, and according to cuneiform ...

The sunken chamber or well enclosing a fresh water spring forms the focus of a cult believed to be devoted to the worship of Mesopotamian god of wisdom and sweet water, Enki. Dating back to the third ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu ... temple dedicated to the warrior god Ningirsu. "We tend to say that ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

In fantasy manhwa, gods are often used for world-building or conflict, with many depicted as unseen influencers. Gods can be integral parts of the plot in some manhwa, interacting directly as ...

Elon Musk drew a distinction between a creative entity and a moral observer. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has revealed he is open to the "idea of God", but his views remain shaped by a ...

One of those monuments was the 2,800-year-old temple of Nabu, the Mesopotamian god of wisdom and writing. IS fighters wreaked havoc at other sites too, like the once-celebrated Mosul Museum and ...

And as some priests engaged with Brahmins, they found that the trappings of many gods were simply a humanised vision of something more akin to a familiar and orthodox monotheism. A recognition of ...

These gods were a bit like humans, but they lived forever and were much more powerful. They felt human emotions, like love, anger and jealousy, and they did not always behave themselves.