What it tells us about the past: This carved relief from Nimrud, a major city of the ancient Assyrian Empire in present-day Iraq, regularly drifts around the internet as purported evidence for scuba ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was made ...

Situated within the ruins of Esarhaddon's throne hall at the Nabi Yunus site in Mosul, part of ancient Nineveh, the colossal ...

In 763 BCE, within the vast and powerful Assyrian Empire centered around the city of Nineveh, a remarkable and somewhat eerie event occurred. On June 15, in the full light of day, the world ...

Some 180 stamp impressions of the Judahite administration discovered at Mordot Arnona on display at the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel. Sennacherib was the ...

Archaeologists have unlocked a portal to the past through an object that might seem mundane at first glance: a sun-dried brick. Found amidst the ruins of a Neo-Assyrian palace in modern-day Iraq, this ...

Nikolas Farantouris, as a member of the Security and Defense Committee and coordinator of the Constitutional Affairs ...

The discovery in Turkey led to a looting charge against the homebuilders and captured a time when the Neo-Assyrian Empire was the region’s dominant power. By Jennifer Pinkowski When the builders ...

New York: Basic Hachette, 2024. Pp. xx, 508+. Illus., maps, table, notes, index. $22.99 paper. ISBN: 1541605152 The Bad Boys of the Old Testament. Most of us are familiar with the later Assyrians as ...