He had seen his neighbours to the north, the Kingdom of Israel, destroyed by the Assyrian Empire, and it was thought that he ...

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.), ...

A wall sculpture dating back 3000 years to King Sennacherib, King of Assyria (705-681 BCE) has been vandalised for the second time in a few years by vandals using painted Islamic slogans.

SBS Assyrian correspondent in Duhok, Naseem Sadiq, spoke with Mr Sliwa days after a section of the ancient wall was bulldozed by private contractors, in order to make way for road construction.

The setting was war-torn northeast Syria. Within the territory controlled by Kurdish fighters was a string of Assyrian Christian farming villages along the Khabur River. These Assyrians had ...

It is called Assyrian Aramaic (and, less commonly, Imperial Aramaic). According to the Old Testament, in 701 B.C., when officials of Sennacherib appeared before the walls of Jerusalem, and the ...

Philadelphia, Pa -- The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq and showcases the rise of the New Assyrian Empire.

Assyria, which was located in Mesopotamia, is considered the world's first empire. It existed from 2000 BCE to 612 BCE, and ...

While in the case of Mesopotamian cities walls clearly demarcate an in- and outside for the ... The workshop has enlisted renowned and esteemed international scholars from the field of Neo-Assyrian ...