overview

Category: Eurasia

  • Queen of heaven

    Queen of heaven

    Inanna[a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with beauty, sex, divine law, and political power. Originally worshiped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar[b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯). Her primary title was “the Queen of Heaven”. Inanna was worshiped in Sumer at least as early as the Uruk period (c. 4000 BCE – 3100 BCE)

  • epic of Gilgamesh

    Written 2100-1200 BCE mesopotamia, west asia, Mesopotamia included parts of present-day Iran, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey.

  • Mythical and historical past of Persia

    The Shahnameh (Persian: شاهنامه, romanized: Šāhnāme, lit. ‘The Book of Kings’, pronounced [ʃɒːhnɒːˈme]), also transliterated Shahnama,[a] is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. 

  • Fath-Ali Shah Qajar