Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site ... Nimrud is a testament to a golden age of "the art and architecture of the Assyrian civilisation".

This beautiful example of Spanish Renaissance architecture is in ... This impressive king extended his empire to the Mediterranean and set the stage for Assyria’s hegemony in the Near East ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq ...

Despite its hostile geography, rebellious vassals, and the constant pressure from the Assyrian Empire, the Urartians managed to survive and thrive. Against more powerful enemies like Assyria, the ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, found in the ruins ...

but the Assyrian and Chaldean Syriacs were also targeted by the Ottoman Empire. The Sayfo Massacres, or "Assyrian and Syriac Massacres," are regarded as one of the Middle East's most heinous crimes ...

In those days, the area that is now Iraq was part of the powerful Assyrian Empire. King Sargon II had a new capital built at Khorsabad near Mosul, but after the death of its founder the city lost ...

Here are 10. Baklava predates the countries of both Turkey and Greece, with the earliest known traces of Baklava back in 800 B.C., during the Assyrian Empire. Today, that honey-sweet phyllo treat ...

The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved the capital to Dur-Sharukin (modern Khorshabad) in 717 B.C. The city is located 4 miles south-west of ...