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.), ...

Among the highlights on display are 48 vibrant recreations of relief panels from the ancient Assyrian palace of Nimrud--an ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — An ancient Assyrian palace, part of a 3,000-year-old Iraqi archaeological site Islamic State forces reportedly destroyed, is still intact in a virtual world at the Williams College ...

The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city ... The items displayed Syrian and Phoenician iconography in addition to central Assyrian Art. The treasures ...

In the 1800s, French archaeologists rediscovered the site. Their excavation of Sargon's palace uncovered treasures of Neo-Assyrian art and culture, but teams digging elsewhere in the city came up ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as his capital and built what he called the 'Palace without Rival', decorating it with finely carved reliefs.

Sculptor Thabet Mekhail standing next to an Assyrian monument destroyed by ISIS in Mosul. Source: Supplied He said many artefacts in the palace were ... Mr Mekhail said the art of sculpturing ...

The tablets were discovered during excavations carried out in the 1950s at the Northwest Palace of Nimrud, one of the capitals of the Assyrian Empire. According to researchers, they survived by sheer ...