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

This librarian wanted to know much more about the organisation of knowledge in Ashurbanipal's library, as there is a fair ...

A vast library was assembled in Assyria by King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2,700 years ago. The ...

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 ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about their daily lives, religions, and habits, many "disappearances" remain ...

INTERVIEW: Nearly two decades after being put on trial for ‘insulting Turkishness’, Shafak has become one of the UK’s most ...

The director Noah Baumbach, who grew up in Park Slope, used parking as a metaphor for entitlement, grievance, and impotence ...

Ancient Tel Shiqmona site yields first evidence of large-scale purple dye production centuries before Roman times, possibly supplying First Temple in Jerusalem ...

The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved the capital to Dur-Sharukin (modern Khorshabad) in 717 B.C. The city is located 4 miles south-west of ...

A top archaeology journal now bars Israelis from publishing on Judea and Samaria unless they work with Palestinian ...

“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 ...