In Lord Byron’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the king of the title laments that the glory of his empire will someday fade into oblivion. “Time shall quench full many a people’s records, and a hero’s acts ...

A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

Dr Bleda Düring deemed it was time for an archaeological approach on the imperialisation of Assyria. 'While there are lot of archaeological studies of Assyrian sites, they are not really trying to ...

For centuries, the Phoenician city-states survived conquest after conquest, bending but never quite breaking beneath the ...

Rabban Hormizd Monastery in the town of Alqosh, which has been the site of recent tensions due to the forced removal of its elected Assyrian mayor Fayez Abed Jawahreh and his replacement with a ...

A bidding war at Christie's this week sent the price of a 3,000-year-old stone relief from $7 million to more than $28 million, setting a world record for ancient Assyrian artworks and raising fears ...

One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century color lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the ...

Atorina Zomaya. (Assyrian Kitchen) Atorina Zomaya, the spirited founder of Assyrian Kitchen, is making ancient foods a modern phenomenon. As part of the Chicago-based interactive cooking project, ...

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Scientists report that they may have found the earliest written record of a solar storm in ancient Assyrian tablets. Recent analyses have found evidence of an extreme solar storm that left energetic ...