The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

For 6775 years the Assyrians have been an indigenous population of Mesopotamia, with a continuous presence in what is today northern Iraq and the wider region. Our identity is not solely religious, ...

Experts in Assyriology -- who specialize in the archaeological, historical, cultural and linguistic study of Assyria and the rest of ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq) --spend many years painstakingly trying ...

A huge stone slab discovered near the Iraqi city of Mosul offers new clues to the major deities of the ancient Assyrians, who ruled one of antiquity’s great empires. Unearthed by a German team at the ...

Wall relief panel depicting an “urmahlilu” (Lion-Man) (645-640 BCE), a protective spirit, North Palace, Nineveh, in the I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria (unless noted otherwise, ...

Matthew Nazari, a recent graduate of Harvard University and a proud Assyrian, has dealt with the repercussions of erasure firsthand. Nazari recounted his inability to find suray language resources ...

Late 19th century drawing of an Assyrian lion symbol published by French excavator Victor Place. King Sargon II was a big fan of seeing his name around town—at least, that’s what one expert believes ...

The ziggurat of Nimrud seen in the upper left-hand corner of satellite images from late August, early October, mid October, and early November (gif by the author from photos courtesy American Schools ...

Try your hand at cuneiform, dab some color with polychromy, or explore symbolic meanings. A timeline of the reliefs puts it all into context, and activity booklets are geared for both middle and high ...