One issue was that during the empire's last decades, the Assyrian crown experienced a crisis of legitimacy. It had been precipitated by Ashurbanipal, whose long reign [669-631 BC] marked a cultural ...

Universal Images Group via Getty Images. The Assyrian Empire reigned from 1,365 to 609 BC, led by King Sennacherib’s campaign to control all routes across the Syrian Desert that led to the ...

Assyria began as a dependency of Babylonia, but it became an independent state in the 14th century B.C.E., some 3,000 years ago, and grew into a major regional power in the historic Middle East.

Stone engravings of deities from the Assyrian Empire have been rare. ... This is mainly because until now, religious relief images from the Assyrian Empire have not contained many deities.

By cross-examining the data sets, my research aims to show that gender in general, and masculinity in particular, were central to Assyrian royal ideology and its discursive regimes, and that for each ...

The image shows a figure floating serenely among stylized waves, apparently breathing from what many have claimed to be an ancient scuba device. ... The Assyrian Empire's military success wasn't just ...

The Neo-Assyrian Empire included modern-day Iraq and Syria and at its height also stretched from northern Africa to the Persian Gulf and into what is now Turkey. In the approximately 300 years of its ...

In Lord Byron’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the king of the title laments that the glory of his empire will someday fade into oblivion. “Time shall quench full many a people’s records, and ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...