A fragment of The Death of Sardanapalus, a painting by Delacroix restored by the Louvre in 2023. (Wikimedia Commons) There are historical figures who, for various reasons, transcend their status to ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC surrounded by deities worshipped in the Mesopotamian civilisation. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Ayala Zilberstein, excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, holding the rare sealing. (photo credit: ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged ...

For millennia, hundreds of vivid bas-reliefs adorned the walls of the Nineveh palace of the legendary eighth-century BCE Assyrian king Sennacherib, depicting daring conquests richly described in ...

This tiny fragment belied a find of Biblical proportions. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in ...

Tal al-Sheikh Hamad, or Dor Katlimo as it was called in cuneiform tablets found 32 years ago by an archeological expedition, is an ancient Assyrian city dating back to the 4th millennium BC. According ...

In war-torn Mosul, archaeologists unearth the largest-known image of the ancient Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. This is the first time an image of a major god has been discovered inside an Assyrian ...

17.99 x 12.01 in. (45.7 x 30.5 cm.) ...

A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged at an archaeological site in Israel. According to ...