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The excavation of Sargon II's palace at Dur-Sharrukin uncovered treasures of Neo-Assyrian art and culture. However, teams digging elsewhere in the city of Dur-Sharrukin came up empty-handed.

I would say that the traditional position which is based on Assyrian royal annals and Assyrian palace reliefs was not totally wrong because it was conveyed to us by the Assyrians themselves, but it ...

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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.), ...

Sculptor Thabet Mekhail standing next to an Assyrian monument destroyed by ISIS in Mosul. Source: Supplied He said many artefacts in the palace were stolen by ISIS fighters and sold through the ...

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.