Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

Situated along the Tigris River in Nineveh Province near Sharqat, Ashur was the first religious and political capital of the Assyrian Empire and is named after its chief deity, Ashur.

Despite its hostile geography, rebellious vassals, and the constant pressure from the Assyrian Empire, the Urartians managed to survive and thrive. Against more powerful enemies like Assyria, the ...

An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ... The items displayed Syrian and Phoenician iconography in addition to central Assyrian Art. The ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

Drone surveyed the orthomosaic map of the Sconsor foreshore, showing the circular stone alignment (C1) within the Sconser foreshore. Credit: K. Hardy et al. A group of archaeologists and scientists, ...

In general, the Greek sources present a very different story of his reign, which saw the creation of the Achaemenid Persian Empire ... s Temple of Marduk by the Assyrian archaeologist Hormuzd ...