Professor Kulakoglu explains that many of the words, although Assyrian in origin -- a Semitic language considered an ancestor ...

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Now, an Israeli researcher has harnessed computational technology to showcase how the scribes compiling the documents made ...

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

But ancient Assyrian inscriptions tell a different story, claiming that Hezekiah, the king of Judah, paid a large amount of tribute to get the Assyrians to leave. At the British Museum in London ...

Thabet Mekhail is working tirelessly to restore and rebuild ancient Assyrian artefacts that were damaged and destroyed during the devastating ISIS occupation of Mosul in Iraq. Iraq’s second ...

In the mountains of eastern Anatolia, during the Iron Age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC, a kingdom arose that ...

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.), ...

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 ...

We summarised it for you in this article and audio podcast. Ancient Assyrians-Babylonians celebrated the Akitu festival on 12 consecutive days. Here is what was happening each day. Day One ...