Greek legend speaks of Troy being a vassal city of the Assyrian Empire. Is there any truth to this obscure tradition?

But Daesh occupied the Iraqi city of Mosul for three years and destroyed many ancient Assyrian treasures. Can archaeologists unearth new discoveries among the wreckage? More than two-and-a-half ...

The oval shape of Assyrian King Sennacherib's military camp ... "I used earlier photographs of the landscape from World War II, right before major changes were made." "And it was a match," he ...

The ancient Assyrian military base was discovered on Ammunition Hill, a memorial war site in Jerusalem. NurPhoto via Getty Images The story tells that Jerusalem’s ruler Hezekiah prayed to the Is ...

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

Kurdish oppression of Assyrians has a long-standing history, most notably during the Assyrian genocide by the Ottomans in 1915–1918, where many Kurdish tribes assisted in the Ottoman campaigns ...

The setting was war-torn northeast Syria. Within the territory controlled by Kurdish fighters was a string of Assyrian Christian farming villages along the Khabur River. These Assyrians had ...

The Assyrian Empire, already battered by a civil war, fell in 612 BCE to a joint assault from its former subjects, the Babylonians, Medes, and Scythians. Nineveh never reclaimed its power in the ...