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.

Despite its Parthian ties, Osroene gradually came under increasing Roman influence. In 114 CE, it was absorbed into the Roman ...

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

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

This carved relief from Nimrud, a major city of the ancient Assyrian Empire in present-day Iraq, regularly drifts around the internet as purported evidence for scuba diving nearly 3,000 years ago ...

But there is no substitute for walking around the city, which is endlessly fascinating. Another relatively obscure attraction ...

“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.

Through Atra Asdou's smart and hilarious re-telling of world history narrated by TEG or The English Gentleman, she takes the ...

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government…a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always ...