Have you ever wondered how one goddess could represent both passionate love and violent war at the same time? In ancient ...

Developers in Gloucestershire, England, recently received a sign of the goddess of love’s favor, unearthing a Roman-era statuette believed to depict Venus at the site of a new construction project.

The ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrudis speaking again. From beneath a landscape fractured by modern war, archaeologists have uncovered what may be the clearest surviving image of Ishtar, the ...

In the figure of Enheduanna, we see a powerful figure of great creativity, whose passionate praise of the goddess of love continues to echo through time.