A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

Published in the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, Gard Granerød’s article, “How Tall Is the God of the Tabernacle ...

The experimental folk group’s gigs are astonishing spectacles – think Viking funeral mixed with a battle from The Lord of the Rings – and their ultimate goal is to whisk the listener off to an ancient ...

“We often imagine Mesopotamian foodways in the Bronze Age ... argues that Judaism didn’t emerge as a fully codified religion until at least the second century b.c., partly in reaction to ...

We will learn how archaeologists and codebreakers deciphered these inscriptions as well as the basics of the writing systems themselves, from Mesopotamian cuneiform to Egyptian hieroglyphics to ...

After the immense international success of "La Disparition de Josef Mengele", Olivier Guez returns with "Mesopotamia" – a novel about Gertrude Bell, a young lady from Victorian high society who became ...

Can religion be your true purpose? It depends. Discover how faith can fuel happiness—or create stress—depending on how you ...

(RNS) — I was talking with a Roman Catholic-raised friend who no longer practices the religion of his youth. At a certain ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

This week, the Carbondale Clay Center celebrates over 30 artists who have played a pivotal role in the center’s development ...

Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Lukasik explores how American evangelical narratives of global Christian persecution have ...

Tutankhamun ruled ancient Egypt shortly after a period of religious instability, and objects from his tomb suggest he took ...