Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

Archaeologists have found artefacts that tell us about Ancient Sumer life, rulers and beliefs. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a collection of stories written about a superhuman king called Gilgamesh.

Kings in ancient Mesopotamia didn't rely on those eclipse omens alone to predict what was coming. "If the prediction associated with a given omen was threatening, for example, 'a king will die ...

if one cross-references his paternity with another ancient text, the Sumerian King List, 3 one finds that Gilgamesh is also listed as the son of the “divine phantom lord of Kulaba.” ...

But only in this century have scholars come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness, chipping away at the sites of such ancient city ... moved toward realism. Kings and high priests were ...

Mesopotamia—“the land between two ... and was the crowning glory of the king’s homage to Babylon’s ancient Akkadian past. Pergamon Museum, Berlin Photograph by BPK/Scala, Florence It ...