King Esarhaddon ruled the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BCE. He was the third ruler of the Sargonid Dynasty, the ...

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 ...

The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved the capital to Dur-Sharukin (modern Khorshabad) in 717 B.C. The city is located 4 miles south-west of ...

Journalists in Rivers State have been charged to remain neutral and be on the side of the people to avoid the wrath that is said to ...

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

The Bible tells of a fateful encounter between an Egyptian Pharaoh and a King of Judah at "Armageddon". Archaeologists found ...

A Oxford Journal of Archaeology publication by Reli Avisar examines how vassal kingdoms, elite consumption, and imported luxury goods shaped Iron Age Lachish and Jerusalem.

It was bizarre living in Dublin during my formative years, feeling both at home and out of place in the very country that was ...

The Italian biblical commentator Ovadiah ben Yakov Sforno (1474-1549) writes: וידום אהרן, seeing he consoled himself after ...

This half-hour episode dives deep into the reign of King Hezekiah, a ruler known for his strategic planning, religious reform ...

A team of archaeologists may have discovered evidence of the biblical Battle of Megiddo, where Josiah, the king of Judah, was killed by Egyptian forces in 609 B.C.

In a recent article, a computer engineer presents the unconventional argument that the true location of the biblical Garden ...