The ancient stone relief looks familiar. Indeed, it bears an uncanny resemblance to the many Assyrian artifacts housed at the British Museum and the Louvre.

The ancient Assyrains had a vast empire in the Middle East. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Assyrians are a people who ...

The ancient Assyrians have been judged somewhat unfairly as brutal people whose only desire was to conquer their neighbors. Although this is true to some extent, it overlooks the important role the ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

The story of ancient Assyria is one of extraordinary longevity and startling evanescence. Assyrian history sprawls out over millennia. As early as the third millennium B.C., a coherent identity ...

Record-Setting Sale Of An Ancient Assyrian Stone Relief Sparks Looting Fears In Iraq The 3,000-year-old relief fetched more than $28 million at Christie's, more than any other similar work. But ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

Many of Iraq and Syria’s Christians come from the ancient Assyrian and Aramean peoples of the Bible, but they now face genocide in their ancestral lands and extinction by assimilation in the West.

R.S. Stafford described the Assyrians of his time in 1935 as descendants of the ancient Assyrians, having survived intact the various periods of foreign domination, and claimed that until World War I ...

An Assyrian Christian man kisses a cross after taking communion in Tell Tamer, Syria. A photograph shows one of at least three people killed after ISIS took about 300 people captive in March 2015.

Assyrians have inhabited the Middle East since the beginning of recorded history. Both secular and Christian Assyrians, unlike the Kurds, are steadfast in their pro-Jewish and pro-Israel views, ...

The Old Testament says that in 701 B.C., as 200,000 Assyrian soldiers massed outside the walls of Jerusalem under the bloody-minded King Sennacherib, the Jewish king Hezekiah prayed to God to save … ...