A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

In the mountains of eastern Anatolia, during the Iron Age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC, a kingdom arose that ...

Today, the Assyrians are the descendants of the ancient Assyrian Empire and one of the earliest civilizations emerging in Mesopotamia. Although the Assyrian empire ended in 612 B.C., history is ...

Today, we see Assyria in a more complicated and more many sided light. It emerges to us, above all, a country of nations, a multi national empire whose power, economic power played a decisive role, if ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the ...

An epic biblical battle between the king of Judah and an Egyptian army led by Pharaoh Necho ll has finally been proved to ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

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A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art were carved more than 2500 years ago for the palaces and temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ...