Installation view of Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq. From the 800s to the 600s B.C., the kings of Assyria built grand palaces in their capital cities, located in the land we know today as Iraq.

Ashurbanipal, last major ruler of the Assyrian Empire, depicted in the royal lion hunt bas-reliefs (c. 645 B.C.) that were ripped from the walls of the North Palace at Nineveh during the excavations ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC surrounded by deities worshipped in the Mesopotamian civilisation. The ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Israel might corroborate a dramatic biblical account, potentially shedding light on the ancient siege of Jerusalem by Assyrian King Sennacherib. This finding, ...

This is the first time archaeologists have found an image of a major god inside an Assyrian palace. In war-torn Mosul, archaeologists unearth the largest-known image of the ancient Assyrian king ...

Some 180 stamp impressions of the Judahite administration discovered at Mordot Arnona on display at the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel. Sennacherib was the ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Nineveh, present-day Mosul in Iraq, unearthed one of the most astonishing finds in history: the Library of Ashurbanipal, the great ...

The reliefs—which likely depict an Assyrian king's military campaigns—are the first major discoveries of their kind in Iraq since the 1800s. A member of a joint Iraq-U.S. archaeological team gently ...

In the center of the relief stands Ashurbanipal, the last king of the Assyrian Empire, who ruled from 669 to 631 B.C. He is flanked by the ancient Mesopotamian gods Ashur and Ishtar, and they are ...