The Ancient Gods

How the religions of the first civilisations began and ended: Sumerian city gods and Enheduanna, Babylonian myths of creation and the flood, Egyptian ma'at, the Pyramid Texts and the weighing of the heart, Akhenaten's Aten, the gods of Olympus and Delphi, Roman state religion and the cults of Isis and Mithras, the closing of the temples from 391 to 537, and their legacy in our weekdays. Episode 02 of the Origins of Religions series.

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