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

In the First Reading, Nineveh is described as an “awesomely great city” (v 3) not just for its enormous size and power, but for its enormous sins. The Assyrians had destroyed the northern kingdom of ...

The Assyrian Empire went into decline, and its many enemies seized the opportunity to attack. Soon, an alliance of Median and Babylonian troops would destroy both the Assyrian religious capital of ...

Philadelphia, Pa -- The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation ... of one of the gates of the ancient city of Nineveh uncovered sculptures of King Sennacherib ...

Assyria, which was located in Mesopotamia, is considered the world's first empire. It existed from 2000 BCE to 612 BCE, and was led by Sennacherib from 705 to 681 BCE. Sennacherib moved the rapidly ...