Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC surrounded by deities worshipped in the Mesopotamian civilisation. The ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors.

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 ...

New research suggests a long-overlooked bas-relief in King Sennacherib’s palace in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, destroyed with ...

Wall relief panel depicting an “urmahlilu” (Lion-Man) (645-640 BCE), a protective spirit, North Palace, Nineveh, in the I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria (unless noted otherwise, ...

A fragment of The Death of Sardanapalus, a painting by Delacroix restored by the Louvre in 2023. (Wikimedia Commons) There are historical figures who, for various reasons, transcend their status to ...

Tal al-Sheikh Hamad, or Dor Katlimo as it was called in cuneiform tablets found 32 years ago by an archeological expedition, is an ancient Assyrian city dating back to the 4th millennium BC. According ...

In war-torn Mosul, archaeologists unearth the largest-known image of the ancient Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. This is the first time an image of a major god has been discovered inside an Assyrian ...

A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged at an archaeological site in Israel. According to ...

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 ...