Sennacherib mobilised the Assyrian imperial army ... And so the cycle of war that these reliefs show - brutal, pitiless, and devastating for the civilian population - was about to begin all ...

Close examination of the reliefs provide details about Assyrian history and culture. Use the viewing screen below to see if you can find the items mentioned in each description.

Using the MadMapper projection mapping software each element of the relief was carefully picked out and given the appropriate color. The end result was an exhibit that was convincing enough to fool ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian ... reliefs, including the famous carvings now in the British Museum. This section, now in the Oriental Museum in Durham, depicts the results of civil ...

Despite previous excavations led by the English archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard and then by British archaeologist Sir ...

Depiction of a relief from Khorsabad, the Assyrian capital during the ... Around 714 BC, the Assyrian invasion of parts of Urartu sparked the protracted Urartu-Assyrian War. Following Assyrian King ...

Jumping ahead, the Assyrian Christian community was nearly wiped out during the First World War by the Turkish government. Those who escaped persecution moved to Iraq, which was under control of the ...

The eight marble reliefs show finely chiselled war scenes, grape vines and palm trees. They date back to the Assyrian King Sennacherib, who ruled the ancient city of Nineveh from 705 to 681 BC ...

Lachish Reliefs (made around 700 BC ... and it was the result of the prodigious Assyrian war-machine. Lachish, about 25 miles (40 km) south-west of Jerusalem, is today known as Tell ed-Duweir.