Ancient civilizations often linked powerful animals like lions to cosmic events, aligning their appearances with eclipses, solstices, or even comets. From Mesopotamia to Egypt, the lion was seen ...

Their world was Mesopotamia, but Assyria’s holdings extended ... colossal bulls and winged lions with human heads. But Ashurbanipal dispensed with these impressive creatures, turning instead ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

The Iraqi national team, against all odds, started winning. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "THE LIONS OF MESOPOTAMIA") UNIDENTIFIED SPORTSCASTER #1: And it just floated into the zone. FADEL ...