Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of ...

Archaeologists Stunned to Find Evidence of a Town Supporting a Biblical Tale of Angels Killing 185,000 Soldiers Biblical ...

Another member of the Iraqi Religious Freedom Roundtable, Amir Mawloud, from Kurdistan, spoke next. The Kurds are a large minority in Iraq, with their own regional government, and he pointed out that ...

My wife and I are travelling to Korea during Spring Break, and I’ve been invited to speak at one of our partner churches in ...

Philadelphia, Pa -- The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural ... "is that ...

Excavating in Nineveh, the ancient Assyrian capital, in what is now Northern Iraq, they discovered 2,700-year-old sculpted marble reliefs depicting the reign of King Sennacherib. Recovery of the ...

Set against the backdrop of Nineveh, the capital of the mighty Assyrian Empire, 'Lamassu Falling' immerses readers in a time when plagues and wars ravaged the land. The story unfolds as an ominous ...

My grandmother was Assyrian. She hailed from Iraq ... A fighter from the NPU (Nineveh Plain Protection Units) walks through a destroyed church on November 8, 2016, in Baghdeda, Iraq.

Only last year, Pope Francis included the Assyrian mystic and theologian St. Isaac of Nineveh in the Roman Martyrology. The Khabur raid on the Assyrians was carried out by the Islamic State ...

THE opening of St Mary's Cathedral on Saturday (15) brought together more than 500 members of the Assyrian Church of the East Community. Formerly known as St James’ Church, it stood unused in St James ...

It is March 27, 669 BC, and night has fallen over Nineveh, the Assyrian capital. On the temple roof, Balasi, chief astrologer to king Esarhaddon, is scanning the sky. An adviser has told the king ...