A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine forms ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

Ancient Greece had some famous priestesses who played a significant ... They were tasked with performing rituals and communicating directly with the gods on behalf of their worshippers. This immense ...

If its content and its sources reflected ancient Near Eastern mythologies ... called the Enuma Elish ("When above..."), the chief god to emerge in Babylon, Marduk, slew the dragon Tiamat, a ...

Bel (Marduk) was the primary Babylonian god ... Belshazzar and his guests drank wine from the vessels while worshipping their false gods. In the ancient world, gods were always associated with a ...

and Eros (god of love), were also discovered, alongside fragments linked to Artemis (goddess of hunting) and Nemesis (symbol of justice). Aspendos (or Aspendus) was an ancient Greco-Roman city ...

Both he and Greene claimed last year that a series of natural disasters were a sign that God was upset with liberal America. She told followers on X: 'God is sending strong signals to the US to ...

Ancient Greek historian Herodotus ... a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk, in Babylon. But with all the myth, folktale, and mystery surrounding the Tower of Babel, it is important to ...

A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in Pompeii over the last few weeks, offering clues about rituals connected to the Greek god of wine in the ancient city that was destroyed ...

In short, Cyrus turned the town around. Its previous ruler undermined local religious traditions, oppressed the Babylonians, and angered the god Marduk, who chose Cyrus to save his people.