Many Assyrians use the names of ancient Assyrian kings, queens, gods, goddesses, and cities. For males, names such as Ashur, Sargon, Nimrod, Ashurbanipal, and Sankheeru are common. For females, names ...

But ancient Assyrian inscriptions tell a different story, claiming that Hezekiah, the king of Judah, paid a large amount of ...

When one king, Ahab, did show magnanimity to a defeated enemy ... 249) "Amongst all the aspects of ancient Mesopotamian life, there are few which have been more widely misunderstood and misrepresented ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

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.), ...

No ancient city was so desired and feared ... More intriguingly still, a depiction of that Assyrian king found on a bas relief in Nineveh shows leafy gardens watered by an aqueduct.

A hot wind kicked up ancient soil. The site measures only ... “There were 117 Assyrian kings. When these kings died, they were buried here.” But to date only three royal graves have been ...

The king's role ... to scholars of the Ancient Near East, the Old Testament, Semitistics, Antiquity Studies and related subjects. The workshop has enlisted renowned and esteemed international scholars ...

During Assyrian history this image changed substantially ... Final remarks and a general response to the workshop will be delivered by Saana Svärd (P.I. CoE Ancient Near Eastern Empires): Kings and ...