Iraqi forces retook control of the site of ancient Nimrud, and since then, reconstruction efforts have been taking place in ...

Archaeologists unveiled new treasures from the ancient Temple of Ninurta in Nimrud, Iraq shedding light on Assyrian ...

The latest findings cast light on the history of a major civilization that is considered to be one of the world's first ...

A joint team of American and Iraqi archaeologists returned to the ruins of Nimrud, the once-thriving capital city of the ...

Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose project had ...

The ancient Assyrian capital of Dur-Sharrukin King Sargon II had intended the city of Dur-Sharrukin to be the new capital of his empire. It was to be a grand symbol of the Assyrian empire, but the ...

Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose project ...

The only symbol that might be considered 'Assyrian' is the crescent moon, which we have established was a common icon not exclusive to the Assyrian Empire. The Kingdom of Urartu, located in the ...

Depiction of a relief from Khorsabad, the Assyrian capital during the time of Sargon II. For roughly two centuries, from ca. 900 -- 700 BC, the Near Eastern empires of Neo-Assyria and Urartu ...

It has been another bad week for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government collapsed faster than Afghanistan’s had in August 2021. Syrian ...