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.), ...

But unity, Patriarch Sako emphasizes, "is not a return to what we were, but a focus on what we should be!" And in order to ...

Many Ancient Assyrian Tombs have been found in the past ... The items displayed Syrian and Phoenician iconography in addition to central Assyrian Art. The treasures Belonged to: Yaba, Queen of ...

[Photo provided by The Trustees of British Museum] In the royal palaces of Assyrian kings, art served one ultimate purpose — to awe ... may have given the land of Phoenicia its name — in ancient Greek ...

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 ...

The art objects, together with a selection of 16th to 18th century Persian rugs ... are known to have graced the walls of the royal palace in the short-lived splendour of the Ancient Assyrian Empire.

The map leads to ‘Urartu,’ which was named in an ancient Mesopotamian poem as the Ark’s landing place and is the Assyrian equivalent to “Ararat,”, the mountain location named in the ...

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Following the second meeting between Pope Francis and Mar Awa III, ACI MENA, CNA’s Arabic-language news partner, conducted an exclusive interview with the catholicos-patriarch of the Assyrian ...

During this period the dominant powers in the East were Assyria and then Babylonia. Each established an extensive empire which was based on Mesopotamia, and each in turn fell largely through internal ...