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

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 ...

He is flanked by two supreme deities: Ashur, the Assyrian national god; and Ishtar, goddess of fertility, love and war—and the patron of Nineveh.

The more than 2,600-year-old relief, which would originally have been brightly painted, depicts King Ashurbanipal flanked by Ashur, the national god of Assyria, and Ishtar, the protector goddess ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal, the last ...

The newly uncovered slab was found to contain at its centre Ashurbanipal, the last great ruler of the Assyrian empire, flanked by two supreme deities: the gods Ashur and Ishtar, the patron goddess ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC surrounded by deities worshipped in the Mesopotamian civilisation. The ...

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 ...

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 ...