The winged bull figure is lamassu, a likeness featured in Mesepotamian art between the 7th and 9th ... is now Iraq was part of the powerful Assyrian Empire. King Sargon II had a new capital ...

The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ... The items displayed Syrian and Phoenician iconography in addition to central Assyrian Art. The ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire ... of 20th- and 21st-century art at Christie’s in New York.

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

John Glubb Pasha was a distinguished British officer. He participated in the wars of the British Empire during its last half-century in Europe and ...

The Byzantine Empire appears only through interpretative ... by Syriac- and Greek-speaking Christians from Aramaic and Assyrian traditions. Among them, so-called “Judeo-Christian” communities ...

Born in Baghdad to parents of Armenian descent, Sourouzian grew up in Beirut and studied art history at the Sorbonne ... at the southern fringe of his empire—chopping off the right hands of ...

Despite its hostile geography, rebellious vassals, and the constant pressure from the Assyrian Empire, the Urartians managed to survive and thrive. Against more powerful enemies like Assyria, the ...

Between 1915 and 1918 750,000 Assyrians (75%), 1,000,000 Greeks and 1,500,000 Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks and Kurds in a genocide that aimed at and nearly succeeded in destroying the ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, found in the ruins ...