In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

Archaeologists have unlocked a portal to the past through an object that might seem mundane at first glance: a sun-dried ...

Scholars have found a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn praising the city, its citizens, and deity Marduk, with the help of A.I.

Michel has collected translations of more than 300 nineteenth-century B.C. cuneiform tablets by or to women in Women of Assur and Kanesh: Texts from the Archives of Assyrian Merchants.

The discoveries came to light during excavations in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, located in what is now northern Iraq. ... Cuneiform is considered to be the oldest known writing system.

Assyrian cuneiform tablets contain the earliest known reference to auroras. (Image credit: Y. Mitsuma's tracings of photographs by H. Hayakawa, taken courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum) ...

This 2,900-year-old brick, fashioned from mud and baked in the sun, bears the cuneiform inscription of its ownership by Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II.

MR. KING'S modest little volume on the Assyrian language will, we believe, be welcomed by many who are not Assyriologists, because it contains a brief but lucid exposition of the principles upon ...

There are literally tens and tens of thousands of Assyrian cuneiform texts, from royal inscriptions in which kings describe their military activities or building projects, to letters to royalty by ...

Both of these finds provide insights into Assyrian religious practices at the temple, which was built during the reign of King Ashurnasirpal II, who ruled from 883–859 B.C. A dais uncovered by ...