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The Sumer and Elam war was the first recorded war in human history. It occurred in 2700 BCE between the Sumerians and the Elamites over trading rou...
Psusennes I was better known as Pasibkhanu or Pasebakhaenniut in the early times. His real name meant “The stellar in the metropolis,” and he ruled...
Pazuzu was an ancient Mesopotamian demon, but he was also a deity. He brought with him destruction, famine, disease, and was the representation of ...
Mandeans are an ancient religious group that first lived in southern Mesopotamia more than 2,000 years ago. Their rituals vaguely resemble Zoroastr...
This list of pharaohs is a compilation of all of the notable ancient Egyptian rulers, starting from the first ruler in Early Dynastic Egypt to the ...
Lamashtu is a female demon god of ancient Mesopotamian mythology. She is associated with many extremely bad deeds. In literature, Lamashtu can only...
King Khafre and the world-famous Sphinx of Giza are the same. A closer look between the two would reveal that the features of the pharaoh could als...
Isimud, also known as Usmu in Akkadian legends, was a Mesopotamian god. In Sumerian mythology, Isimud the “two-faced god” was a sukkal of the god E...
Inanna was an ancient goddess of the Sumerian civilization. The Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians adored her as she represents love, war, ferti...
Egyptian pyramids are one of the most magnificent man-made structures in the world, and everyone has heard about the pyramids at least once in thei...
How did the Nile shape ancient Egypt into the glorious kingdom that we read about today? Egypt, once a complete desert, rose to power and civilizat...
When we think about ancient Egypt, we often reflect on how old it is; from the beginning of its Dynastic Period to the Fall of Egypt, a harmonious ...
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