Raw blocks of lapis lazuli were transported by foot or donkey from northeastern Afghanistan to Mesopotamian palaces, where artisans fashioned them into sculptures, bowls and jewelry. Sailing ...

He describes a hunting scene that resembles no artwork found on the palaces in Babylon. It does, however, fit descriptions of the hunting reliefs discovered on Assyrian palaces in Nineveh.

The palace and temples integrated their economic ... and also slaves captured from the mountains surrounding Mesopotamia. (A ...

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 ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal ... a relief from Ashurbanipal’s palace showing him in a chariot; a ...

But what happened in Mesopotamia to prompt such revolutionary changes ... What Başur Höyük does not have, however, is a palace or a kingdom full of people who could be impressed by human sacrifice.