The Ottoman Empire in Decline: From Multinational State to Ethnic Nationalism The film opens in the ancient Assyrian ...

The ancient Assyrians couldn’t exactly take to the phones like the IRS, making incessant calls demanding that loyal subjects ...

The finding provides “direct evidence of official correspondence between the Assyrian Empire and the Kingdom of Judah," ...

The 1-inch pottery fragment, which is part of a seal that was used to authenticate official documents, was reportedly found ...

Deportees after the Assyrian siege of Lachish, Judea (701 B.C.E.). Detail from bas-relief removed from Sennacherib's "Palace Without Rival," Nineveh, Iraq, and now in The British Museum. (The British ...

The Neo-Assyrian Empire, centered in northern Iraq and extending from Iran to Egypt -- the largest empire of its time -- collapsed after more than two centuries of dominance at the fall of its capital ...

A new study reveals that the first true cavalry emerged among the Luwian and Aramean states, predating the Assyrian Empire by ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the ...

Archaeologists working near Temple Mount in Jerusalem were exploring a pile of earth from an ancient drainage canal. They ...

In 763 BCE, within the vast and powerful Assyrian Empire centered around the city of Nineveh, a remarkable and somewhat eerie event occurred. On June 15, in the full light of day, the world ...

During an excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority, archaeologists discovered a small piece of pottery, only about ...