Mesopotamian warfare was waged between rival city-states such as Ur, Lagash and Umma during earlier periods, and later ...

The world premiere of Atra Asdou's “Iraq, But Funny” at Lookingglass Theatre Company lives up to its title — and then some.

Assyrian people are among the oldest indigenous communities of Syria and Beth Nahrin (Mesopotamia). Descendants of a rich and ...

Was this the world’s first empire?

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

In the mountains of eastern Anatolia, during the Iron Age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC, a kingdom arose that challenged one of the greatest powers of its time: Urartu (also known as the ...

The Assyrians once ruled a region that stretched from Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) through Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and ...

The early buildings date prior to the Assyrian military campaign of 701 BCE, being replaced in the early 7 th century BCE just after the Assyrian suppression of Hezekiah's rebellion.

These “private stamp impressions” were probably part of an administrative system that operated before the Assyrian military campaign, “as part of the Kingdom of Judah’s preparations, led ...

Archaeologists have found evidence of an Assyrian military campaign against Judaea that resulted in the siege of Jerusalem. The campaign was launched in 701 B.C., when Sennacherib was king of ...

The discovery of a building that the Assyrians likely tore down in the eighth century B.C. reveals the political dynamics of that age in Jerusalem.