Archaeologists have unlocked a portal to the past through an object that might seem mundane at first glance: a sun-dried brick. Found amidst the ruins of a Neo-Assyrian palace in modern-day Iraq, this ...

The Assyrian reliefs are a testament to Britain’s involvement in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They also illustrate how nineteenth-century Christians living ...

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 ...

Detail of an Assyrian relief sculpture depicting a lion hunt, ca. 645 B.C. Photo: Alamy In Lord Byron’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the king of the title laments that the glory of his empire ...

Religion: Assyrian Patriarch. 2 minute read. TIME. August 12, 1940 12:00 AM GMT-4. T he first Patriarch in history to visit the U. S. docked in Manhattan last week, settled at the Gramercy Park Hotel.

Then, in an astonishing reversal of fortune, the Neo-Assyrian Empire plummeted from its zenith (circa 650 BC) to complete political collapse within the span of just a few decades.

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq ...

The final decades of the Assyrian Empire (912-609 BCE) were marked by political instability and conflict, but new research suggests droughts and bad harvests played a part in the empire's decline.