The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world for centuries. At its height, it stretched from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

A stunning 12-ton relief depicting Assyrian deities has been uncovered beneath the ancient palace of King Ashurbanipal.

2,700 years ago, Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire. Researchers from the University of Heidelberg have made a spectacular discovery in the palace of King Assurbanipal. During ...

The palace was rediscovered by a British Museum-led archaeological expedition in late 1853—during which several large-scale reliefs, now on display in the museum in London, were uncovered.

In the late 1800s, British researchers explored the city’s North Palace, which was built during Ashurbanipal’s reign, between 668 and 627 B.C.E., and found some large, detailed reliefs.

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists ...

One of those monuments was the 2,800-year-old temple of Nabu, the Mesopotamian god of wisdom and writing. ISIS fighters wreaked havoc at other sites too, like the once-celebrated Mosul Museum and ...

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 ...

IS’s destruction of this site revealed an Assyrian palace , which was dedicated to Jonah. Our current project documents the intangible and textual heritage of both Yazidis and Christians.