A research team announced the results of their study at the archaeological site of Dur-Sharrukin, revealing evidence of ...

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 ...

Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of ...

In the 1800s, French archaeologists rediscovered the site. Their excavation of Sargon's palace uncovered treasures of ...

Lilah Raptopoulos talks to Smuni Turan and her son Matay de Mayee, author of ‘The Oldest Kitchen in the World’ ...

In a new cookbook, Assyrian recipes are collected that have been passed down orally for centuries. Lilah speak to the mother ...

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, ...

During these centuries, a common, unspoken language of symbols often reflected the region's shifting geopolitics, allegiances ...

The New Arab revisits the ancient cities of the Middle East, highlighting the destruction caused by war, looting, and neglect ...

King Sennacherib of the Assyrian Empire invaded Jerusalem The Assyrian Empire existed from 1365 to 609 BC. This was many centuries before Christ’s time. King Sennacherib of the Assyrian Empire led the ...

The piece of art, titled 'L'empire des lumieres' or 'The Empire of Light' brilliantly juxtaposes night and day. While Magritte depicts the skies above as a bright, sunny, spring-summer day ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an auction in ...