The full scientific study, "A Unique Assemblage of Cremation Burial from Ḥorvat Tevet and Assyrian Imperial Rule in the ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

At its height in the seventh century b.c., the Neo-Assyrian Empire stretched west to east from Egypt to Elam, a kingdom in southern Iran, and from Iraq in the south to the northern reaches of the ...

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 ...

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 fascinating history of the lost cities of the Middle East. In the middle of the nineteenth century, British archeologist Austen Henry Layard uncovered parts of several ancient Assyrian cities ...

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. When British archaeologist Max Mallowan investigated the neo-Assyrian site of Nimrud in northern Iraq, he got help from ...