Archaeologists have unearthed a stunning 2,700-year-old sculpture in Iraq, uncovering new details about the ancient Assyrian civilization. The incredible find, a lamassu-a mythical creature with the ...

Researchers have revealed the secrets of the long-forgotten ancient Assyrian capital of Dur-Sharrukin in modern-day Khorsabad ...

Cylinder seals from Ur, c. 2450 BC, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, USA In the first article of this series, I provided a brief historical overview of the Neo-Assyrian, Urartian, and Achaemenid empires, ...

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He went off into the desert rather than exercise authority as the Bishop of Nineveh. Related: Brief History of Assyrians All Christianity is oriental in origin. St Peter himself spoke Aramaic. Most ...

DR. THOMPSON'S brilliant monograph on ancient Assyrian chemistry is worthy of very careful study. To appreciate it fully one must be both an Assyrio-logist and a chemist, but even those who ...

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In early 2013 Nineb Lamassu, a PhD researcher in Cambridge’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, received donations of manuscripts from the families of two prominent Assyrian writers. However ...