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

In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, a team from Heidelberg University unearthed a massive relief beneath the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, Iraq. The ...

The only woman ever to have ruled the mighty Assyrian Empire, Semiramis titillated writers and painters from the Roman period to the 19th century.

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.

2,700 years ago, Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire. Researchers from the University of Heidelberg have made a spectacular discovery in the palace of King Assurbanipal. During ...

German archaeologists have made a spectacular discovery in Iraq. During excavations in the ancient metropolis of Nineveh, a team from Heidelberg University came across large parts of a monumental ...

Rare stone carving depicting Assyrian king surrounded by gods unearthed Stone engravings of deities from the Assyrian Empire have been rare ...

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.

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 ...

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Iraq found a massive 26,000-pound carving, a university said. Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University ...

Heildelberg excavation work in anciente Nineveh. Credit: Aaron Schmitt / Universität Heidelberg At the center of the relief now discovered by the University of Heidelberg is the figure of King ...