Archaeologists Stunned to Find Evidence of a Town Supporting a Biblical Tale of Angels Killing 185,000 Soldiers Biblical ...

Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose exploits of laying siege to Lachish and Jerusalem are detailed in ...

Today, we see Assyria in a more complicated and more many sided light. It emerges to us, above all, a country of nations, a multi national empire whose power, economic power played a decisive role, if ...

It was a big mistake. Sennacherib mobilised the Assyrian imperial army, fought a brilliant campaign, seized the city of Lachish, killed its defenders and deported its inhabitants. And the ...

Philadelphia, Pa -- The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq and showcases the rise of the New Assyrian Empire.

Mr. Bitzhamov says in the 1940s, the Assyrian population in the former Soviet Union was about twenty thousand, living in different Soviet Republics. There were more than two thousand soldiers in ...

The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art were carved more than 2500 years ago for the palaces and temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ...

Three Babylonian men on the left are followed by an Assyrian soldier, recognisable by this crested helmet, who is using a stick to beat the captive in front of him. Behind them are female ...