Such a finding would shake up the popular understanding of how the crown has been passed down over the ages and leave ...

In Lord Byron’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the king of the title laments that the glory of his empire will someday fade into oblivion. “Time shall quench full many a people’s records, and a hero’s acts ...

A new book has been published in the Oxford University Press Series on Ancient History, Very Short Introductions. The book Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction is written by the distinguished ...

In this episode, we explore the decline of Sumer during the Isin-Larsa period and the subsequent rise of Assyria and Babylon. #Sumer #Assyria #Babylon #IsinLarsa #HistoricalAnalysis ...

Rabban Hormizd Monastery in the town of Alqosh, which has been the site of recent tensions due to the forced removal of its elected Assyrian mayor Fayez Abed Jawahreh and his replacement with a ...

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Scientists report that they may have found the earliest written record of a solar storm in ancient Assyrian tablets. Recent analyses have found evidence of an extreme solar storm that left energetic ...

A bidding war at Christie's this week sent the price of a 3,000-year-old stone relief from $7 million to more than $28 million, setting a world record for ancient Assyrian artworks and raising fears ...

One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century color lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the ...

Back then, turtles were not a regular meal in Mesopotamia. Turtle bones, however, were thought to ward off evil. The abundance of R. euphraticus turtles, a notoriously aggressive species, in this ...