THE TRUSTEES OF BRITISH MUSEUM A stone wall panel relief from the North Palace of Nineveh showing the siege of Hamanu by invading Assyrian armies. THE TRUSTEES OF BRITISH MUSEUM A replica of a ...

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.), ...

In Nineveh, the Assyrian capital in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, the king built a magnificent palace known as the North Palace. He decorated it with wall after wall of sculptural reliefs recounting his ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib ... it with finely carved stone reliefs, including the famous carvings now in the British Museum. This section, now in the Oriental ...

The discoveries in the tunnels - reliefs ... king of Assyria from 883 to 859 BC. Iraqi archaeologist Faleh Noman, who undertook British Museum training and has been appointed by the Iraqi ...

Ancient Assyrian artefacts are currently on display at University of Sydney's Chau Chak Wing Museum. Showcasing some of the most ancient reliefs ... contributed by the British Museum.

The relief slabs that decorated the palaces of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which emphasized military conquest and royal prowess, have traditionally been understood as statements of imperial propaganda ...