A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

Egypt’s 18th dynasty rose to the start of the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1077 BCE) and was the zenith of Egyptian international ...

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.

American archaeologists working in Iraq have uncovered a massive, extremely rare carving which depicts King Ashurbanipal of ...

Babylon It was the name of an ancient city of Mesopotamia of the region dominated by it. He flourished on the banks of the ...

The archaeologists theorize that after the kingdom fell to the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 722 B.C.E., the site at Tel Shiqmona was operated at a limited, local capacity for several years before ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, found in the ruins ...

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military campaigns of Ashurbanipal, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was discovered in ...

911-605BC - Area part of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. 605-539BC - Becomes part of the Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar the Great. 539-330BC - Becomes part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire ...

a historian who specializes in the Neo-Assyrian Empire who was not involved in the Khorsabad survey, told Live Science in an email. Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II started building his giant new ...

These ancients, who lived in the Neo-Assyrian Empire, also tended to associate the stomach with feelings of sadness and distress. Not everything has carried over from the past. For instance ...

Dur-Sharrukin, meaning "Fortress of Sargon," was built by Sargon II, naming it after himself, to serve as the new capital of the Assyrian Empire around ... treasures of Neo-Assyrian art and ...