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 ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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.), ...

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 ...

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 ...