The episode shows us that even though the Assyrian kings were very powerful, they couldn’t fully be in charge of everything. We also know a lot about how husbands and wives interacted, sometimes ...

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.

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) ...

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

Stunning ancient rock carvings that portray an Assyrian king paying homage to his gods amid a procession of mythical animals have been unearthed in the Kurdistan region in the north of Iraq.

The next-earliest description of a candidate aurora is found on Assyrian cuneiform tablets dated between 679-655 BCE, three centuries later. As we've reported previously, ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three Victorian amateurs were determined to solve the puzzle.

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 ...