In Lord Byron’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the king of the title laments that the glory of his empire will someday fade into oblivion. “Time shall quench full many a people’s records, and a hero’s acts ...

Rabban Hormizd Monastery in the town of Alqosh, which has been the site of recent tensions due to the forced removal of its elected Assyrian mayor Fayez Abed Jawahreh and his replacement with a ...

The full scientific study, "A Unique Assemblage of Cremation Burial from Ḥorvat Tevet and Assyrian Imperial Rule in the ...

Atorina Zomaya. (Assyrian Kitchen) Atorina Zomaya, the spirited founder of Assyrian Kitchen, is making ancient foods a modern phenomenon. As part of the Chicago-based interactive cooking project, ...

This is the first time archaeologists have found an image of a major god inside an Assyrian palace. In war-torn Mosul, archaeologists unearth the largest-known image of the ancient Assyrian king ...

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 ...

A bidding war at Christie's this week sent the price of a 3,000-year-old stone relief from $7 million to more than $28 million, setting a world record for ancient Assyrian artworks and raising fears ...

In yet another case of destruction of cultural heritage, ISIS has obliterated the 2,900-year-old ziggurat of Nimrud, a 140-foot-high stepped tower comprised of mud bricks, the Times reports. Nimrud, ...

Stunning ancient rock carvings that portray an Assyrian king paying homage to his gods amid a procession of mythical animals have been unearthed in the Kurdistan region in the north of Iraq, after ...

One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century color lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the ...

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