This description of the teething process comes from a 3,000-year-old medical handbook from ancient Assyria and Babylonia. The ...

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 ...

Among the remains of the great Library of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-c. 630 BC), are clay tablets containing an ...

A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a ...

They're not just for show—those towering white hats carry centuries of culinary history, clues to kitchen hierarchy and tons ...

My two closest pals and I recently reaffirmed our buddyhood that has endured for a half-century. We performed the ...

The relief, discovered in the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal, is among the most significant finds in recent years, offering new insights into the religious iconography and political symbolism of ...

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.

The newly uncovered slab was found to contain at its centre Ashurbanipal, the last great ruler of the Assyrian empire, flanked by two supreme deities: the gods Ashur and Ishtar, the patron goddess ...

During archaeological excavation underneath the palace built by King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, Schmitt and his team found the monumental relief carving, which ...