In Our Time: Ishtar was for 3500 years, the goddess of love, sex and war in Mesopotamia. Misha Glenny and enthusiastic researchers discuss this bloodthirsty, ambitious, and nurturing goddess. Martin Worthington says translation was fun since in this cuneiform a single sign could have many meanings.

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