But ancient Assyrian inscriptions tell a different story, claiming that Hezekiah, the king of Judah, paid a large amount of ...

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

David Damrosch In November 1872, George Smith was working at the British ... in Assyria of the 7th and 8th centuries B.C.—references to oxen, slaves, casks of wine, petitions to kings, contracts ...

British Museum, London Photograph by Erich Lessing ... More intriguingly still, a depiction of that Assyrian king found on a bas relief in Nineveh shows leafy gardens watered by an aqueduct.

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh ... including the famous carvings now in the British Museum. This section, now in the Oriental Museum in Durham ...

For many, the prospect of a career at the prestigious British Museum was unthinkable ... many originated from Nineveh’s library, built by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in the seventh century ...