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

The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world for centuries. At its height, it stretched from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, ...

Royal Lion Hunt. From the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Kalhu (Nimrud), 875--860 B.C. Gypsum, 37 11/16 × 54 × 8 in. British Museum, [1849,1222.8] [1856]. ( The Trustees of the British Museum ...

Taken together, the four inscriptions establish at least the bare bones of her story: The queen definitely lived in the Assyrian Empire between the ninth and eighth centuries B.C., was married to ...

The relief shows the seventh-century BC ruler of the Assyrian empire alongside two prominent deities and other figures. It was carved into a massive stone slab measuring 5.5 meters in length, three ...

Assyrian sites, constructed primarily of mud, would be lost forever. He also pointed to what he called a “social disaster,” with tens of thousands of people facing displacement.

The monumental relief, measuring 5.5 meters in length and weighing about 12 tons, showcases important figures from Assyrian religion, including King Ashurbanipal, the god Ashur, and the goddess ...

Troy and the Assyrian Empire, according to Ctesias The earliest reference to any connection between Troy and the Assyrian Empire comes from Ctesias. He was a Greek writer who lived in the late-fifth ...

English, as Stefan Collini observes in his wry and compendious new history of the discipline, Literature and Learning, tends to inspire an extravagant attachment rarely associated with, for example, ...

Mr. Adam Homeh "Athra" magazine editor in chief says the writing is a talent by giving an ample example of himself saying that he started writing when he was in the fourth grade. Mr Homeh as an ...