rarely seen throughout art history—seems almost unbelievable. Other sculptures on view are diminutive figures of women that at first glance may seem unremarkable. But unlike many ancient statues ...

Inanna, also known as Ishtar, is an ancient goddess associated ... workers and enslaved women contributed to Mesopotamian society through labour, art, and passing down family traditions ...

A new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia ca ... and echoes of caste and status in an ancient patriarchal society, the exhibition is ...

3400-2000 B.C, the first time a selection of artworks captures the shifting expressions of the lives of women in ancient Mesopotamia during the late fourth and third millennia BC. The exhibition ...

And while there was no official word for kissing back then, sentences like “young lord of the house repeatedly licks the young woman ... written texts from ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day ...

New research into Ancient Mesopotamia suggests people kissed romantically 4,500 years ago. The finding would mean humans began kissing 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. The article ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia ... how to perform the ancient Mesopotamian equivalent of an exorcism. The writing is accompanied by an illustration of a woman shooing away a man ...