In a few days all over the world, an event called Easter or Easter Sunday will be celebrated. As a young man growing up, I can recall getting dressed for ...

A panel composed of glazed nicks shows a lion in bas relief, symbolizing Ishtar, the goddess of love and war, from the Ishtar gate, Babylon, dating to Nabuchadnessar (650-562.B.C.), is ...

One viewpoint is that Easter is rooted in the celebration of the fertility of a pagan goddess, Ishtar, who was from ...

snakelike creature which was linked to bodies of water became the Mušḫuššu of Babylon, Ladon and the Lernaean Hydra of ancient Greece, Apophis of ancient Egypt, and so forth. Where dragon ...

Q: Why did you choose the name, Star of Ishtar Restaurant? A: Ishtar is a Babylon gate that was built over 2,500 years ago. A lot of people don’t know about Ishtar Gate, but it’s a famous ...

Near the start of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, there was a massive but largely forgotten battle between the Greeks and the Babylonians. Credit: wikimedia commons / Bazil Amin CC BY 4.0 About 2600 years ...

Every week, The Post will bring you our picks of the best one-liners and stories from satirical site the Babylon Bee to take the edge off Hump Day. Want more of a chuckle? Be sure to click the links.

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy. The Babylonians lived from about 2,500 to 4,000 ...

Players—or Masters—join Chaldea to prevent humanity’s extinction by fixing Singularities, summoning Servants like Gilgamesh or Ishtar to ... Nostalgia for Babylonia and Camelot, plus ...