Youbert Lazar, a skilled calligrapher, was born in Iran. His passion for Persian calligraphy emerged at the age of 12, ...

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

The findings will be presented on Monday, 9 December at AGU's 2024 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., where more than 28,000 ...

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

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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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 ...

Some of history's most notorious forgeries include a Vermeer that tricked a Nazi and a fake sculpture by Michelangelo.

Art is a space where conversations collide in Maryam Yousif’s whimsical, cheeky and thoughtful three-dimensional ...

Hamill has built a reputation as a foremost adapter of novels to the stage, including dust-blowing-off versions of “Vanity ...

He was a fifth-century BC Greek writer from Cnidus, a town in Caria in western Anatolia. One of his most notable works was a history of Assyria and Persia. No records of this survive directly, but the ...

You wouldn’t think it, but the venerable ancestors weren’t averse to sampling the delights of marijuana. Indeed, as “Kosher ...