The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ... The items displayed Syrian and Phoenician iconography in addition to central Assyrian Art. 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.), ...

[Photo provided by The Trustees of British Museum] In the royal palaces of Assyrian kings, art served one ultimate ... and Tyre operated largely as the empire's vassals, paying regular tributes ...

The relief slabs that decorated the palaces of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which emphasized military conquest and ... There is much in this book that ancient and art historians will find of interest. The ...

That art, which once adorned a palace wall ... The city of Nimrud, known as Calah in the Bible, became the capital of the neo-Assyrian Empire in 883 B.C., under King Ashurnasirpal II.

The bas-reliefs are widely regarded as "the supreme masterpieces of Assyrian art." (British Museum) (CN) – Roughly 2,600 years ago, the largest Mesopotamian empire fell due to political unrest, civil ...