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

In the mountains of eastern Anatolia, during the Iron Age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC, a kingdom arose that ...

(Margot Stout Whiting, Assyria 1995 - The Glory and Fall of the Assyrian Empire) "Thus, the Assyrian king, in perpetrating actions - sometimes including atrocities - which put the enemy into panic, ...

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.), ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

On top of the flagstaff is the standard of King Sargon I, who established the first Assyrian empire. During the ancient times this insignia stood by the king's side to let everyone know his ...

served as the imperial capital of the Assyrian Empire under King Ashurnasirpal II nearly 3,000 years ago. Newsweek notes that the city was a hub of political and religious activity, symbolizing ...

the Assyrian king had two central public roles. On the one hand, he was the defender of the “Kingdom of Heaven” (materialized in the Assyrian Empire) against all possible forces of evil threatening it ...

Three thousand years ago, the world was, as usual, at war. On the face of it this might seem surprising, as the entire population of the world three thousand years ago was only about 50 million ...