Installation view of Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq. From the 800s to the 600s B.C., the kings of Assyria built grand palaces in their capital cities, located in the land we know today as Iraq.
The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...
This is the first time archaeologists have found an image of a major god inside an Assyrian palace. In war-torn Mosul, archaeologists unearth the largest-known image of the ancient Assyrian king ...
The Northwest Palace of King Ashur-nasir-pal II served as a model for centuries of Assyrian architecture that followed it. Samuel Paley, a professor of classics at the State University of New York at ...
The Northwest Palace of King Ashur-nasir-pal II served as a model for centuries of Assyrian architecture that followed it. Samuel Paley, a professor of classics at the State University of New York at ...
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 ...
Heidelberg excavation work in ancient Nineveh. A team from Heidelberg University working in Iraq made a remarkable discovery. In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal, located in ...
2,900 years ago, Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II declared a sun-baked mud brick as his. Can it now reconstruct the environment he lived in? This 2,900-year-old brick, fashioned from mud and baked in ...
In 1845, an Englishman named Austen Henry Layard set out from Constantinople in search of Nineveh, the last capital of the Assyrian Empire. He was 28 years old, held no formal training in archaeology, ...
In war-torn Mosul, archaeologists unearth the largest-known image of the ancient Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. This is the first time an image of a major god has been discovered inside an Assyrian ...
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