News

Was this the world’s first empire?
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.
The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world for centuries. At its height, it stretched from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, ...
A stunning 12-ton relief depicting Assyrian deities has been uncovered beneath the ancient palace of King Ashurbanipal.
Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...
The relief shows the seventh-century BC ruler of the Assyrian empire alongside two prominent deities and other figures. It ...
“The most important place in the whole city.” Smithsonian magazine The Assyrian Empire grew out of the founding of the city-state of Assur in the third millennium B.C.