The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

Excavating in Nineveh, the ancient Assyrian capital, in what is now Northern Iraq, they discovered 2,700-year-old sculpted marble reliefs depicting ... is considered the world's first empire. It ...

During their centuries-old history the Assyrian nation passed a severe way ... spread everywhere in the Empire. The Assyrian slaughters reached unprecedented levels : horrible events happened in many ...

This was the office of Salem Abdullah, archaeological director of the ancient city of Assur, which once thrived on this rock as the capital of the Assyrian Empire ... years old, it was part ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq ...