The sarcophagus in the tomb chamber contained hundreds of items including jewelry, vessels, ornaments, seals and other goods. The items displayed Syrian and Phoenician iconography in addition to ...

After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, it has been ...

Gentileschi often gave her mythological and Biblical female figures a striking sense of agency, such as her most widely known scene of the widow Judith violently beheading Assyrian general Holofernes.

Other discoveries include a sculpted griffin head, fragments of glazed pottery, carved ivories, pieces of jewelry ... Nimrud, known as Kalhu in Assyrian times and Calah in the Bible, served ...

Another buried tomb yielded bodies, among them a man, woman, and child bedecked with gold and silver jewelry ... its height around 700 B.C. under Assyrian king Sennacherib. Some three square ...

Playwright Atra Asdou's semiautobiographical dark comedy about the relationship between Assyrian women and their mothers premieres at Lookingglass Theatre Company. Former Niles resident and Maine ...

In 1845, an Englishman named Austen Henry Layard set out from Constantinople in search of Nineveh, the last capital of the Assyrian Empire. He was 28 years old, held no formal training in ...

The only woman ever to have ruled the mighty Assyrian Empire, Semiramis titillated writers and painters from the Roman period to the 19th century. Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon ...

2,700 years ago, Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire. Researchers from the University of Heidelberg have made a spectacular discovery in the palace of King Assurbanipal. During ...