A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities ... posting to Tehran in 1833 yielded mastery of Old ...

Despite its hostile geography, rebellious vassals, and the constant pressure from the Assyrian Empire, the Urartians managed to survive and thrive. Against more powerful enemies like Assyria, the ...

At this time the Assyrians had carved an empire that stretched from Egypt to the Persian Gulf but this empire was difficult to control. Sennacherib's successor Esarhaddon died in 669 BC while on ...