The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

Published in PLOS ONE, the research employs computational tools to analyze nearly 1,000 manuscripts from the British Library, ...

The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of Nimrud). The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ...

Were the Cimmerians of Greek mythology, most famously appearing in Homer's Odyssey, the same culture as the Cimmerians of ...

As a people, the Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs, who were among the first to embrace Christianity, are already on the endangered list. Without a safe haven in the Nineveh Plains, their ancestral home ...

The mud and bronze from which the Lebanese artist Ali Cherri sculpts his latest creations are freighted with history, memory ...

Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ancient Mesopotamia under one roof. This incredible library was forgotten for ...

An epic biblical battle between the king of Judah and an Egyptian army led by Pharaoh Necho ll has finally been proved to ...

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DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Witnesses said the attacker, who has not been officially identified, ran toward the crowd shouting Islamic slogans. DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — The annual parade by Assyrian ...

In the rubble of Gaza, beneath the weight of destruction and conflict, an unexpected opportunity lies waiting. As bulldozers ...

A scientist has made a bold claim about the location of the Garden of Eden. He used Medieval world maps to find the Biblical ...