World of Antiquity on MSN

How did the Anunnaki become modern myths?

The Anunnaki are among the most misunderstood figures in ancient Mesopotamian mythology. Originally described in Sumerian, ...
World of Antiquity on MSN

The truth about Berossus' Sumerian king list

Berossus was a Babylonian priest writing in the third century BC who produced one of the most influential histories of ...
PBS

Can All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?

We explore Tiamat the “mother of monsters” in Mesopotamian mythology. Across multiple mythologies, the term “mother of monsters” is used frequently on the likes of women such as Echidna, Lamia, and ...
Nature

Sumerian Mythology*

TO-DAY everyone in the least interested in archæology has heard of the Sumerian culture of Mesopotamia and the cuneiform system of writing that was developed there. Not everyone realizes that only so ...