The tablets revealed writing on topics ranging from daily life to a list of kings.

The capture of the city of Astartu by the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III about 730--727 B.C., as depicted on a palace relief now kept on display at the British Museum. (David Castor/Wikimedia ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal, the last great ...

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 ...

Installation view of Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq. From the 800s to the 600s B.C., the kings of Assyria built grand palaces in their capital cities, located in the land we know today as Iraq.

A recently discovered inscription of the Assyrian King Sargon II found at the ruins of the ancient city of Karkemish has been translated. The text implies that Sargon may have been planning to make ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered a 2,700-year-old pottery fragment inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform, offering what experts describe as the first direct evidence of royal Assyrian ...

The Palace of Sennacherib, the Assyrian King who captured Jerusalem about 700 before the Christian era, has been unearthed by a University of Chicago expedition. Prof. Edward Chiera. just returned ...

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