Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

“Art of the First Cities ... that were believed to control every aspect of life. In the Mesopotamian world, the gods owned the cities, and humans did their bidding at the behest of kings.

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when ...

Wedged between the Middle East, south Asia and central Asia, Afghanistan occupies a pivotal place in world geography and world history. Its location has helped draw a diversity of cultures, religions ...

“It is a most remarkable place,” says archaeologist John Russell of the Massachusetts College of Art ... the gods.” Scores of temples served by a caste of priests catered to the Mesopotamian ...

Flintica is a fantasy artist and creature designer on a mission to mystify nature, inspire dreaming, and raise awareness of ecological and social topics. “We are nature and art is what makes us so ...

The temple where he is standing — Baalshamin — was dedicated to a Mesopotamian god of the sky and was one of the main features of the sprawling oasis city where caravans carried silk ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, an unknown scholar in ancient Mesopotamia wrote the first known book on a series of clay tablets. The ...

B Manjunath Kamath conjures up new creatures and narratives, using unexpected fragments of men, gods, birds and bovines ...