Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

Well, not before they make ecstatic music together in a terrific number called “Boom Boom,” in which the call-and-response ...

Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire. Researchers from the University of Heidelberg have made a spectacular ...

The discovery is particularly significant because religious relief images from the Assyrian Empire rarely contained ...

Babylon It was the name of an ancient city of Mesopotamia of the region dominated by it. He flourished on the banks of the ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.

Archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a discovery in Iraq, unearthing fragments of a monumental bas-relief ...