The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art were carved more than 2500 years ago for the palaces and temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ...

And the resounding success of the Assyrian campaign is what is celebrated in these carvings. They're in shallow relief, and they'd have run like a continuous frieze pretty well from floor to ...

Many argue, that the image represents the unification of the sky with the Earth. Assyrian relief carvings from ancient Iraq, 883-859 BC, also show handbag carvings. Theories say that according to ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as his capital and built what he called the 'Palace without Rival', decorating it with finely carved reliefs.

Using the MadMapper projection mapping software each element of the relief was carefully picked out and given the appropriate color. The end result was an exhibit that was convincing enough to fool ...