Cyrus the Great (590-529 BCE) was known as an innovative warrior and a benevolent king. He expanded the Achaemenid Dynasty to ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

The latest report submitted by the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) highlights the urgent and ongoing challenges facing the ...

Was the Book of Daniel really written in the sixth century BC or was it a much later forgery from the Hellenistic Era?

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal, the last great ...

with both Babylonian poems and the Imago Mundi referring to “Urartu,” Ararat’s Assyrian name. In 2015, the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem exhibited a collection of Babylonian cuneiform ...

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 ...

If so, Ashurbanipal’s mother might have been Assyrian and Shamash-shum-ukin’s Babylonian, seemingly justifying these designations. The Assyrian Empire during the time of Esarhaddon. Credit: ...

911-605BC - Area part of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. 605-539BC - Becomes part of the Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar the Great. 539-330BC - Becomes part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire ...

Babylonia was often involved in rivalry with the state of Assyria in the north of Mesopotamia ... But the Babylonian Empire quickly fell apart after the death of Hammurabi and was turned ...