A recent discovery in Israel may corroborate an epic biblical account of an angel of the Lord wiping out 185,000 Assyrian soldiers, an independent scholar claims. Stephen Compton, an independent ...

Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose exploits of laying siege to Lachish and Jerusalem are detailed in the Hebrew Bible, have finally been identified, a scholar says.

Esarhaddon’s reign was characterized by extensive military campaigns, the restoration of Babylon, and a dedication to astrology not seen under any prior Assyrian kings. He is notorious not only ...

A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

The Assyrian military's development of a reliable flotation ... but they were doing something equally impressive. They revolutionized military tactics through clever engineering and practical ...

Researchers in Jerusalem have uncovered an ancient military base that may provide clues of a battle ground for God's army against Assyrian soldiers who came to conquer the Holy Land around 2,700 ...

(Library of Congress) A peer-reviewed paper in the prestigious journal Near Eastern Archaeology reports the first-ever discoveries of ancient Assyrian military camps. Created circa 700 BC during ...

The reliefs—which likely depict an Assyrian king's military campaigns—are the first major discoveries of their kind in Iraq since the 1800s. A member of a joint Iraq-U.S. archaeological team ...

Sarah, an Assyrian American human rights advocate, has been visiting friends in the Nahla Valley for the last few years. She said these coercion tactics are nothing new and that the KRG and ...

Recent excavations in Jerusalem’s Mordot Arnona neighborhood have revealed indirect evidence of the renowned Assyrian military campaign, famously documented in both Biblical and Assyrian records.