When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as his capital and built what he called the 'Palace without Rival', decorating it with finely carved reliefs.

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 ...