"The expansion of the Assyrian empire revived the manufacture and trade of luxury goods. It also led to the exchange of ...

In Nineveh, the Assyrian capital in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, the king built a magnificent palace known as the North Palace. He ...

Despite the stereotypes, eunuchs clearly often played important roles in the ostensibly masculine world of strategic planning ...

When Fran met Ashour through a dating app he never imagined the story of the 34yearold Iranian After the meeting a forgotten passport catches the attention of Fran and his friend Juan who decide ...

The Assyrian Australian Association launched the Ashurbanipal Library on Thursday, May 5, 2022, with more than 300 invited guests celebrating the occasion at Eden Venues in Bonnyrigg. The Evening ...

In war-torn Mosul, archaeologists unearth the largest-known image of the ancient Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. This is the first time an image of a major god has been discovered inside an Assyrian ...

Ashurbanipal, riding in his war chariot, inspects the spoils and prisoners obtained after the conquest of Babylon. (Wikimedia Commons) That depravity of the monarch, Diodorus continues, would have led ...

Elif Shafak's novel There are Rivers in the Sky intertwines the lives of four characters through water, history, and hope in ...

Numbering in the thousands, many originated from Nineveh’s library, built by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in the seventh century B.C. Created when the Neo-Assyrian Empire stretched from Egypt ...

Between the years 705 and 631 BCE, three warrior kings -- Sennacherib, his son Esarhaddon, and grandson Ashurbanipal -- transformed Nineveh into the most powerful city in the world. -Assyrians ...

He was succeeded by Ashurbanipal. Ashurbanipal built a new palace, now known as the Northern Palace, and decorated it with finely carved stone reliefs, including the famous carvings now in the ...