The items displayed Syrian and Phoenician iconography in addition to central Assyrian Art. The treasures Belonged to: Yaba, Queen of Tiglathpileser III, king of Assyria 744-727 Banitu, Queen of ...

A dig at a coastal village in Israel has turned up remains of a large facility that once produced Tyrian purple on an ...

The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

It was bizarre living in Dublin during my formative years, feeling both at home and out of place in the very country that was ...

even jaded citizens of the modern world are startled by this image—a painting of the key moment in the story of Judith, the Jewish widow who saves the city of Bethulia from attacking Assyrians ...

A Franciscan of Belgian origin, he received the cardinal's red hat on 7 December during the last consistory. The Iranian ...

"It’s a bit surreal! I keep pinching myself to make sure I am really here, and also asking myself why it took so long to come ...

Between 1915 and 1918 750,000 Assyrians (75%), 1,000,000 Greeks and 1,500,000 Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks and Kurds in a genocide that aimed at and nearly succeeded in destroying the ...

As Salman Toor’s work has become more politically conflicted and emotionally raw, he finds himself wondering, “What am I ...

Museums provide the first draft of art history. They decide which artists get to share wall space with masters like ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...