Ancient Tel Shiqmona site yields first evidence of large-scale purple dye production centuries before Roman times, possibly ...

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

The ramifications of successful translation were not purely academic: The credibility of Old Testament narratives of the ...

“Only a fraction of all this has ever been excavated,” Abdullah said. “There were 117 Assyrian kings. When these kings died, they were buried here.” But to date only three royal graves ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

In the mountains of eastern Anatolia, during the Iron Age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC, a kingdom arose that ...

Pottery excavated at Megiddo in northern Israel suggests a military presence, possibly confirms the battle between King ...

A Oxford Journal of Archaeology publication by Reli Avisar examines how vassal kingdoms, elite consumption, and imported ...

It does, however, fit descriptions of the hunting reliefs discovered on Assyrian palaces in Nineveh. This confusion may be due, in part, to the fact that some kings of Assyria, such as Sennacherib ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found in a curious location.

beyond the Sambatyon. "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and he carried them away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan ...

Tel Megiddo was the location where Josiah, the king of Judah, famously fought the ... arrived at the site following the collapse of the Assyrian Empire," he added. He also said that the Grecian ...