Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose exploits of laying siege to Lachish and Jerusalem are detailed in ...

King Esarhaddon ruled the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BCE. He was the third ruler of the Sargonid Dynasty, the ...

The image of the Assyrians themselves has also changed. It has been known for a long time that the Assyrian king was the representative of God on earth. My own research indicates that this view was ...

In those days, the area that is now Iraq was part of the powerful Assyrian Empire. King Sargon II had a new capital built at Khorsabad near Mosul, but after the death of its founder the city lost ...

They bore the names of the Assyrian kings at the time of use, including Shalmansser III (858-824), Sargon (721-705), Sennacherib (704-681). The Official Aramaic later became accepted as the standard ...

“Only a fraction of all this has ever been excavated,” Abdullah said. “There were 117 Assyrian kings. When these kings died, they were buried here.” But to date only three royal graves ...

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.), ...

After the traumatic events at the end of the reign of Sargon II the warrior-image of the Assyrian king changed again from individual heroism to a more sublime form, in which the simple royal presence ...

The king's role in expanding, defending ... The workshop has enlisted renowned and esteemed international scholars from the field of Neo-Assyrian studies, and promises to provide new insights into the ...