A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

Figures are shown complete and not half submerged which is typical of Assyrian art. There is an inscription written in ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

A stunning 12-ton relief depicting Assyrian deities has been uncovered beneath the ancient palace of King Ashurbanipal.

The relief shows the seventh-century BC ruler of the Assyrian empire alongside two prominent deities and other figures. It ...

The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world for centuries. At its height, it stretched from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

History | January 2022. At the Iraqi Site of Assur, Ancient History Stands at Risk of Destruction. In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment.

The only woman ever to have ruled the mighty Assyrian Empire, Semiramis titillated writers and painters from the Roman period to the 19th century. Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon ...

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to ...