From a young age, Nenous Thabit rolled up his sleeves and began work on replicating Assyrian sculptures. In a modest apartment in Ankawa, where Thabit and his family took refuge after fleeing ...

A wall sculpture dating back 3000 years to King Sennacherib, King of Assyria (705-681 BCE) has been vandalised for the second time in a few years by vandals using painted Islamic slogans.

[Photo provided by The Trustees of British Museum] In the royal palaces of Assyrian kings, art served one ultimate purpose — to awe. And not a single square inch was spared. Take for example a ...

The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art were carved more than 2500 years ago for the palaces and temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ...

Ataç argues that the layers of meaning embedded in the Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs go deeper than politics, imperial propaganda, and straightforward historical record. 'There is much in this book that ...

810–783 B.C.). While the panel features gods worshipped locally, they are depicted with traits typically found in Assyrian art such as the style of beards and of the muscles in Hadad’s arms.

A 3000-year-old Assyrian relief sold at Christie’s New ... the work is one of the earliest-known examples of ancient art to reach American soil after Sir Austen Henry Layard excavated Nimrud ...