Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the UNESCO-listed archaeological site was ravaged by Islamic State (IS) fighters after they seized large areas of Iraq and neighboring Syria in ...

The Assyrian Empire was relatively short-lived, but its legacy shaped later civilizations, not least in the way Assyrian military tactics were adopted by future armies.

Archaeologists painstakingly reconstruct ancient Assyrian treasures destroyed by jihadists, preserving humanity's heritage at Nimrud site.

Assyria was a major civilization of ancient Mesopotamia—a historic region centered on modern-day Iraq. During this year's excavations, archaeologists unearthed two previously unknown shrines ...

Stone panel, found in northern Iraq . Three thousand years ago, the world was, as usual, at war. On the face of ...

Archaeologists are painstakingly putting together artefacts at Nimrud shattered by Islamic State jihadists, undaunted by the ...

By 1000 B.C., the Assyrians, who had established a powerful empire in northern Mesopotamia, gained the upper hand. But despite periods of stable rule, Babylon would always fall to someone else.

His book, entitled 'Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire' will be discussed at the Eden Gardens reception. Hermiz Shahen is going. Eckart Frahm is a professor of Assyriology in ...

A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ...