A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Noteworthiness: This myth reinforced the Babylonian conviction in divine grandness and the triumph of orchestrate over chaos. 2. The Norse Creation Myth: A World Produced from a Giant’s Body ...

John J. Miller is joined by Eckart Frahm of Yale University to discuss the Babylonian Creation Story. John J. Miller brings The Great Books podcast to a close. John J. Miller is joined by Peter ...

Re "Make room for Marduk," Opinion, Sept. 13 I teach Bible as Literature at a public high school, a class where we studied the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation myth about Marduk and Tiamat.

The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to the British Museum's Irving Finkel.

For instance, a Babylonian creation myth sees Tiamat, or salt water, mingle with Abzu, or fresh water, to create the rest of the gods. The Babylonian source, called the Enuma Elish, refers to the ...

If this is true, the story might be clarified by its contrast with other creation myths that we find in that cultural milieu. One example is the Enuma Elish, the creation story of the Mesopotamian or ...

According to one early flood myth, the Babylonian god Ea sent a flood that wipes out all of humanity except for Uta–napishti (also known as Utnapishtim) and his family, who safely stow away on ...

Comparing the Babylonian origin story to the Genesis creation narrative renews my gratitude that I’m not merely an inglorious servant to the divine, my fate subject to the whim of their caprice.