When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ...

Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose exploits of laying siege to Lachish and Jerusalem are detailed in ...

The image of the Assyrians themselves has also changed. It has been known for a long time that the Assyrian king was the representative of God on earth. My own research indicates that this view was ...

Most secularists believe that these religious apocalyptic visions of the future are absurd, although many secularists themselves fervently believe that artificial intelligence, run away genetic ...

Centre: Detail from a mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in Genoa's Palazzo Doria-Tursi. Right: Detail from a sculpted relief depicting Assyrian king Aššurbanipal (r. 668--631 BC) hunting lions, ...

Philadelphia, Pa -- The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural ... of the gates of the ancient city of Nineveh uncovered sculptures of King Sennacherib, ...

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.), ...

It does, however, fit descriptions of the hunting reliefs discovered on Assyrian palaces in Nineveh. This confusion may be due, in part, to the fact that some kings of Assyria, such as Sennacherib ...

beyond the Sambatyon. "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and he carried them away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan ...