In 763 BC, within the vast and powerful Assyrian Empire centered around the city of Nineveh, a remarkable and somewhat eerie event occurred. On June 15, in the full light of day, the world ...

Ashurbanipal, last major ruler of the Assyrian Empire, depicted in the royal lion hunt bas-reliefs (c. 645 B.C.) that were ripped from the walls of the North Palace at Nineveh during the excavations ...

Then, in an astonishing reversal of fortune, the Neo-Assyrian Empire plummeted from its zenith (circa 650 BC) to complete political collapse within the span of just a few decades.

The Assyrian reliefs are a testament to Britain’s involvement in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They also illustrate how nineteenth-century Christians living ...

This carved relief from Nimrud, a major city of the ancient Assyrian Empire in present-day Iraq, regularly drifts around the internet as purported evidence for scuba diving nearly 3,000 years ago.

The fall of the Assyrian Empire began around 627 BC when competition for the succession to the throne led to civil war. Weakened by internal division, vassal states began to separate from imperial ...

Meticulous ancient notetakers have given archaeologists a glimpse of what life was like 3,000 years ago in the Assyrian Empire, which controlled much of the region between the Mediterranean Sea ...

The Assyrian empire once flourished in ancient Mesopotamia, an area about the size of Kansas that covers parts of present-day Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq. Centuries of war scattered the ...

The Assyrian Empire was a complex Mesopotamian civilisation dating from 2,500 BC to around 600 BC. Mesopotamia, an area of ancient Asia, was where people first gathered in large cities, created ...