Specialists from the Museum of Archeology and Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania, working with the Iraqi team, discovered a large stone monument with the image of the goddess Ishtar in the ...

One of those authorities might have been Mukīn-abūa, a Neo-Assyrian official who lived during the reign of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari III (811 B.C. to 783 B.C.).

With hooved feet and a winged body, the "massive 2,700-year-old" statue was said to depict an "Assyrian Deity that was excavated in Iraq" in 2023. The photo was shared across social media ...

During earlier excavations in Nimrud, the same team revealed a 2,800-year-old palace belonging to an Assyrian king Adad-Nirari III, who reigned from 810 to 783 BCE.

Police Find Rare Assyrian Carvings of Gods in Underground Turkish Tunnels Long Used by Looters Archaeologists will study them once the tunnels are reinforced. Önal, M., Uludağ, C., Koyuncu, Y ...

Starting from a base in Mesopotamia, the Neo-Assyrian Empire (883–609 B.C.) ... Following Hadad is his consort, Attar’atte, a mother-goddess of fertility and protection, ...

If you want to know the connection between the word Easter and the Assyrian Goddess Ishtar, and if you want to know why we dye eggs at Easter time with red, then this podcast will explain all the ...

A team of French and Iraqi archaeologists has uncovered a remarkably well-preserved Assyrian lamassu in the ancient city of Dur-Sharrukin, present-day Khorsabad, in northern Iraq. It’s not the ...

The reliefs—which likely depict an Assyrian king's military campaigns—are the first major discoveries of their kind in Iraq since the 1800s. A member of a joint Iraq-U.S. archaeological team ...

Once-buried 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue uncovered in Iraq Intentionally hidden, the headless statue was showcased again in 2023. Madison Dapcevich Published April 12, 2025. Image ...