Christians celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Jesus. To mark the occasion, Le Monde charts the ...

The faithful have no use for facts and figures or history and geography says DEVDUTT PATTANAIKWhen the British came to India they found Hindu practices very confusing They came from a very different r ...

There's always been a deep-seated rejection of monarchy in Greece, favoring accountable, accessible leaders over distant, ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

A new dynasty of Hellenistic sovereigns was born ... One statue is a combination of Zeus and Oromasdes (Ahura Mazda), supreme gods of Greek and Persian mythology, respectively.

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

Creation has endowed man with unfathomable mysteries. Some of which are explainable while few others find their way into ...

It was probably created in Hellenistic times in the third or second ... attitude towards the Assyrian king and the Assyrian gods," he told the science portal "Live Science".

Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire. Researchers from the University of Heidelberg have made a spectacular discovery in the palace of King Assurbanipal. During excavations, they came across ...

The discovery is particularly significant because religious relief images from the Assyrian Empire rarely contained depictions of major deities ...

It also contains a fish-like deity, who grants the gods and the sovereign salvation ... Researchers suspect it was dug out during the Hellenistic period in the third or second century BC.