This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was made ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

Found amidst the ruins of a Neo-Assyrian palace in modern-day Iraq, this unassuming artifact has unveiled extraordinary insights into life nearly 3,000 years ago. This brick was not merely a ...

Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II started building ... unearthed Khorsabad's palace, including iconic “Lamassu” statues of winged bulls with human heads that are now at the Louvre.

One site of particular interest was the northern palace built by king Ashurbanipal, who ruled in the 7th century B.C.E and is considered the last great king of Assyria. It was there that 19th ...

A recent discovery in Israel may corroborate an epic biblical account of an angel of the Lord wiping out 185,000 Assyrian soldiers, an independent scholar claims. Stephen Compton, an independent ...

Archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a discovery in Iraq, unearthing fragments of a monumental bas-relief dating back to the 7th century BCE in the throne room of the North Palace of ...

The archaeologists have been carefully reassembling bas-reliefs, sculptures and decorated slabs depicting mythical creatures, which had all graced the palace of Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II ...

In addition to the team’s piecing together shards of ruinously shattered statuary, Mr. Maul and company are exploring what was long made inaccessible by the mosque—an Assyrian palace.

It was beneath the palace’s throne room that his team recently unearthed the rare stone slab carved with the likeness of King Ashurbanipal, as well as two Mesopotamian deities—Ashur ...

A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into tens of thousands of tiny fragments.