A piece of jewellery reveals the true meaning of Assyrian reliefs. Kelly Grovier explores how what appears to be a lion hunt was staged to proclaim a king's greatness.

Everyone knows the Great Pyramid and the Lighthouse of Alexandria, but countless other ancient marvels were left off the famous list. In this cinematic 3D documentary, we explore seven forgotten ...

Ashurbanipal (ruled 669-631BC), last of the great Assyrian kings, had his capital at Nineveh, near Mosul in present day Iraq, stronghold of Isis from 2014-17, where vast quantities of ancient ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal, the last ...

Ashurbanipal was born sometime around 685 B.C., to King Esarhaddon and one of his three wives. When Ashurbanipal was 12 or 13, Esarhaddon began preparing for his succession.

In fact, Ashurbanipal was not the last Assyrian king – that dishonour goes to one of his two sons who ruled after him. Yet, within 20 years of his reign ending around 631 BC, the centuries-old ...

Ashurbanipal was the king of what was, at the time, the largest empire in the world, which spanned from Iran to the eastern Mediterranean, from Turkey to the Persian Gulf.

The story of King Ashurbanipal, who ruled over Assyria between 668 and 631 BC, is being documented in an exhibition at the British Museum. Pictured is the Assyrian army in battle.

The lion hunt reliefs from the palace of King Ashurbanipal depict a brutal (if beautiful) massacre—not a heroic drama: lions released from cages, the action taking place in an arena.

A single piece of jewellery reveals the true meaning of Assyrian reliefs from the 7th-Century BC. Kelly Grovier explores how images depicting a staged lion hunt were used to proclaim a king's ...