Archaeologists discovered findings that may prove the biblical battle in which King Josiah met his end was indeed a ...

Marco Polo (1254--1324) is likely the most famous merchant who ever lived. Even small children know his name, thanks to the ...

Philadelphia, Pa -- The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural ... of the ...

The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art were carved more than 2500 years ago for the palaces and temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ...

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 ...

Assyria, which was located in Mesopotamia, is considered the world's first empire. It existed from 2000 BCE to 612 BCE, and ...

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 ...

The king's role in expanding, defending ... The workshop has enlisted renowned and esteemed international scholars from the field of Neo-Assyrian studies, and promises to provide new insights into the ...