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 this cultural durability, the significance of ancient Assyria lies in the spectacular rise and fall of the Neo-Assyrian empire, whose deep influence contrasts with its relatively brief ...

Beneath layers of earth in the ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh, a team of archaeologists from Heidelberg University has ...

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

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three Victorian amateurs were determined to solve the puzzle.

Today in the history of astronomy, an eclipse record helps illuminate the timeline of the ancient world.

Then, around 614-612 B.C., invaders from Babylonia (modern-day southern and central Iraq) and Media (modern-day western Iran) pillaged and burned the temple as the Assyrian Empire collapsed at the ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the UNESCO-listed archaeological site was ravaged by Islamic State (IS) fighters after they seized large areas of Iraq and neighboring Syria in ...

A joint team of American and Iraqi archaeologists returned to the ruins of Nimrud, the once-thriving capital city of the ancient Assyrian Empire, for a third year of excavations, the Penn Museum ...

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.

A joint team of American and Iraqi archaeologists returned to the ruins of Nimrud, the once-thriving capital city of the ancient Assyrian Empire, for a third year of excavations, the Penn Museum ...