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.

their corpses floating in the moat below the city wall. If the Assyrian account is to be believed, Teumman, the Elamite king, was captured and killed by Assyrian soldiers, his head sent to ...

Bronze Age architecture was characterised by city walls constructed from massive stone blocks. To overpower defenders and breach these fortifications, new siege technologies were developed. Besieging ...

A stone wall panel relief from the North Palace of Nineveh showing the siege of Hamanu by invading Assyrian armies. [Photo provided by The Trustees of British Museum] "The necklace, of Egyptian ...

The Assyrian nation currently stands at a cross-road; its very survival will be determined in the next few decades by the road it embarks upon. The vicissitudes experienced by our nation have served ...

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.), ...

SBS Assyrian correspondent in Duhok, Naseem Sadiq, spoke with Mr Sliwa days after a section of the ancient wall was bulldozed by private contractors, in order to make way for road construction.

And excavations at the nearby site of Usu Aska have confirmed the existence of a fort tentatively dated to the Assyrian period. With walls six metres thick and still standing five metres high ...

Proof of #Bible story about angels killing 185,000 soldiers in a night is uncovered after 2,700 yrs #Researchers have discovered an ancient military base that may corroborate a Bible story about God's ...

It is called Assyrian Aramaic (and, less commonly, Imperial Aramaic). According to the Old Testament, in 701 B.C., when officials of Sennacherib appeared before the walls of Jerusalem, and the ...

“The image from the wall of Sennacherib’s palace is now on ... 20th-century photographs with the landscape depicted in the ...

The Assyrian Empire reigned from 1,365 to 609 BC ... A previously known carving on the stone walls of Sennacherib’s palace depicts the conquest of Lachish, a city 42 miles south of Jerusalem ...