On May 12, Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq loaded the Maryam Khatoon Mosque with TNT and obliterated the Ottoman-era heritage site out of existence. Despite the long list of atrocities ...

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fabled land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the command and control center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. This ancient superpower was the largest empire of its ...

A bungled looting scheme has led archaeologists to an underground Iron Age complex in Turkey that may have been used by a fertility cult during the first millennium B.C., a new study finds. "The ...

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 ...

A relief from Nineveh, 645-640 BC, made of gypsum alabaster, showing a lion hunt (The Trustees of the British Museum). Rewriting history can be a rewarding endeavor. Professor Grant Frame of Penn's ...

The discovery in Turkey led to a looting charge against the homebuilders and captured a time when the Neo-Assyrian Empire was the region’s dominant power. By Jennifer Pinkowski When the builders ...

AMMAN — The site of Jamaan is located in the Zarqa Governorate, approximately 16 kilometres north of Amman. During the Iron Age II, the region of Upper and Middle Wadi Zarqa (biblical Jabbok) and its ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. (The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing boards excavated from Nimrud (modern Iraq) represent the first material ...

A portion of an 1892 circus poster showing Jonah prophesying the Median assault on Nineveh, (Adam Forepaugh, Courier Litho. Co., now in the collections of the Library of Congress) Ancient Mesopotamia, ...

The King as a Nodal Point of Neo-Assyrian identity, edited by Johannes Bach & Sebastian Fink was published in 2022. The aim of the book is to fill in some gaps by focusing on the pivotal role of the ...

From the reign of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) until Ashurbanipal (668-627) numerous locations and fortresses in western Iran are mentioned in the Assyrian sources. According to these inscriptions ...

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 ...