The international community does not know how long will last the most recent of Zionist's offensives on Gaza, nor it can ...

In those days, the area that is now Iraq was part of the powerful Assyrian Empire. King Sargon II had a new capital built at Khorsabad near Mosul, but after the death of its founder the city lost ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. (The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing boards excavated from Nimrud (modern Iraq) represent the first material ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, found in the ruins ...

Neo-Assyrian tablet, one of a set of sixteen writing tablets hinged together as a folding set. Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. A new study has ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

and Assyrians. However, Cyprus’s prosperity and location also made it a target for imperial powers seeking control over Eastern Mediterranean trade routes and naval corridors. By the 6th century BCE, ...

When the Assyrian Empire came along, Gaza went through the same turmoil as Israel and Judah and was under the same threat. Gaza went back and forth, being conquered by Assyria, then Egypt, and ...

Netanyahu quickly endorsed Trump’s “plan,” which enabled him to pretend that Israel actually has a postwar plan. It doesn’t. Two-plus months later, the status quo lingers with no end in ...

To Azadeh, smoothing out the bump in what Iranians would call the "Persian nose" she was born with proved a lucrative investment. Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian women have been ...