The Sumerian gods, such as An, Ki, Enlil, and Enki, do not merely represent anthropomorphic figures but also primordial forces of the universe that act together to transform chaos into an ...

The city of Eridu had Enki, who is mentioned above, as their patron, who was also the general god of freshwater, male fertility, and knowledge. One of the greatest of the Sumerian cities was Uruk ...

In 1948, a British pilot serving in Iraq acquired a clay tablet with an intriguing, 3,700 year-old inscription. The ancient writing tells the story of how the god Enki warns a Sumerian king named ...

Of immense symbolic importance, Eridu was also home to the largest temple dedicated to Enki, the god of water and wisdom, a key deity of the Sumerian pantheon. For centuries, this shrine attracted ...