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

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.), ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

“Only a fraction of all this has ever been excavated,” Abdullah said. “There were 117 Assyrian kings. When these kings died, they were buried here.” But to date only three royal graves ...

Archaeologists in northern Iraq have discovered the remains of a massive villa, royal gardens and other structures buried deep underground at what was once the ancient Assyrian capital of ...

Inscribed with cuneiform symbols, it bore the words: “The property of the palace of Ashurnasirpal, king of Assyria.” This ...

The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of Nimrud). The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ...

More intriguingly still, a depiction of that Assyrian king found on a bas relief in Nineveh ... set out to create a reconstruction of its royal palace. Like his predecessors, he left behind ...

When one king, Ahab, did show magnanimity to a defeated enemy ... I would say that the traditional position which is based on Assyrian royal annals and Assyrian palace reliefs was not totally wrong ...

After the traumatic events at the end of the reign of Sargon II the warrior-image of the Assyrian king changed again from individual heroism to a more sublime form, in which the simple royal presence ...