From sources such as Herodotus and the Assyrian King, Ashurbanipal, we know that Greeks from Anatolia served. The possibility of mercenaries in the Egyptian army has been suggested." "This ...

"From sources such as Herodotus and the Assyrian King, Ashurbanipal, we know that Greeks from Anatolia served as mercenaries in the Egyptian army. "This scenario may be linked to the biblical ...

A particularly rich find was the library of Ashurbanipal, last great king of Assyria: in the 1850s, British archaeologist Austin Henry Layard and his Iraqi associate, Hormuzd Rassam, unearthed it ...

Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ancient Mesopotamia under one roof. This incredible library was forgotten for ...

A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

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 ...

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Princess Anne paid her brother King Charles a visit at Clarence House on Friday morning. The King, 76, underwent a brief visit to hospital on Thursday over side effects from his cancer treatment.