Legacy of Tiamat

Mushhushhu dragon, Symbol of the God Marduk, from Babylon

Painted by Jesús Gamarra

Two female figurines with bitumen headdresses ceramic Ur Iraq Ubaid 4 period 4500-4000 BCE by Mary Harrsch Via Flickr: Photographed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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Reconstruction, Ziggurat, Ur.

Babylon lion

~ Incised cosmetic box fragments with a warrior and four women. Period: Neo-Assyrian Date: ca. 9th–8th century B.C. Geography: Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) Culture: Assyrian Medium: Ivory

Babylon’s Ishtar Gate in Istanbul (ca.525 BC) Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

Thanx Apocalyptic Midnight Death Cult

The bull man was an attendant of the sun god Shamash and is a magically protective creature warn and placed in houses and temples as a barrier to evil.

~ Statue. Culture: Sumerian Place of origin: Near Eastern, Iraq Period: Pre-Sargonic Medium: Copper

Depiction of Anzû –also known as Imdugud in Sumer: 3500 BC in the Uruk period–, lesser Mesopotamian deity, half god, half demon; half man, half lion-headed eagle, personification of the blazing southern wind and the ominous thunder clouds, in a relief discovered by British archaeologists in the Assyrian city of Nimrud, Iraq, in 1850, dated 9th century BC.  Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

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Artefacts courtesy of & currently located at the British Museum, London. Photos taken by Steven Zucker.

The archaeological site of Uruk (Warka), 30km east of Samawa, Iraq. The city’s walls were built 4,700 years ago by the Sumerian King Gilgamesh, hero of the eponymous epic. Essam Al Sudani / AFP

Ziggurat of Ur