Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

The British Museum has introduced sensory-rich immersive experience in two galleries, working with global design and ...

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military ...

The library of Assyrian king Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground in 612 BCE, but its contents survived. In the 1840s, archeologists excavating the ancient city of Nineveh found tens of thousands ...

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Soldiers of Alexander the Greats army, with his horse Bucephalus King Ashurbanipal palace relief representing the triumph parade of the king on chariot, Neo-Assyrian Empire King Ashurbanipal palace ...

In my youth, I was awfully down on the Neo-Assyrian Empire. My first exposure to it was ... North Palace of Nineveh in modern-day Iraq that depict the empire’s ruler King Ashurbanipal (reigned 669–631 ...

The exhibits--the Vindolanda Tablets in the Roman Britain Galleries and the Lion Hunt Reliefs of Ashurbanipal in the Assyrian Galleries--provide a fresh way to engage new generations of museum ...

More than the king of lions, Mufasa: The Lion King also managed to pull out a last-minute win at the box office over the 4-day Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.