IN view of recent excavation upon sites in Syria, and of the increased interest the ancient cults of that region have for the archæologist, it was well worth while to produce an annotated edition of ...

The mermaid originated in ancient Assyria, now northern Syria, with the legend of the goddess Atargatis, whose worship later spread to Greece and Rome. In one account, Atargatis transforms herself ...

In 1493, Christopher Columbus claimed to have spotted a few mermaids and left decidedly unimpressed, writing that they: “were not as pretty as they are depicted, for somehow in the face they look like ...

A 2,000-year-old Roman stele featuring Greek inscriptions was discovered in the historic city of Manbij in Syria. The artifact, carved out of black basalt stone, also featured the image of an eagle ...

Odysseus and the Sirens, eponymous vase of the Siren Painter, c. 480–470 BC (British Museum). Credit: Jastrow / Public Domain Mermaids, folkloric creatures with the head and upper body of a woman and ...

Following an earlier report on the World Heritage Sites of Syria, 1 the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) undertook an ...

AMMAN — Khirbat at-Tannoris, located at the northern border of Edom, near Wadi Al Hasa, was excavated by the American archaeologist Nelson Glueck in 1937. Few decades later, Glueck published a book ...

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The myth of the mermaid has endured for centuries. In Ancient Syria, people worshipped Atargatis, a half-human, half-fish goddess who ruled over fertility. Then in Ancient Greece, sailors would set ...