Mesopotamian warfare was waged between rival city-states such as Ur, Lagash and Umma during earlier periods, and later ...

In war-torn Mosul, archaeologists unearth the largest-known image of the ancient Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. This is the first time an image of a major god has been discovered inside an Assyrian ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

A long-lost Assyrian military camp recently found by a Near Eastern archaeology scholar may provide insight and corroborate a biblical account.

Archaeologists have unlocked a portal to the past through an object that might seem mundane at first glance: a sun-dried ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC surrounded by deities worshipped in the Mesopotamian civilisation.

Archaeology & History Monumental Relief of Last Assyrian King Turns Up in Ancient City The discovery was made in a palace built by king Ashurbanipal in the 7th century B.C.E.

During archaeological excavation underneath the palace built by King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, Schmitt and his team found the monumental relief carving, which ...

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Iraq found a massive 26,000-pound carving, a university said. Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University ...

A bronze band showing Phoenicians paying tribute to the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III. [Photo provided by The Trustees of British Museum] In the royal palaces of Assyrian kings, art served one ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC surrounded by deities worshipped in the Mesopotamian civilisation. The ...