A sculpture of the ancient Mesopotamian goddess, Inanna-Ishtar, representative of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, justice, and political power, was taken down from a tree trunk after it ...

Long before the gods of Olympus, there was Inanna. As the supreme deity of the Sumerians, she was the original "Queen of Heaven"—a complex figure of both terrifying war and transcendent love. We trace ...

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Day and night, for three months, Sumer Al Hindawi carved away at a massive boulder from the Jordanian desert. He worked up to 20 hours a day on the dense halabat stone. What emerged from the boulder ...