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 ...

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 great ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The latest report submitted by the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) highlights the urgent and ongoing challenges facing the ...

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 satirical play follows five generations of Assyrian women through the Ottoman Empire to present-day Chicago, tackling colonialism and generational trauma — and finding humor through it all.

President Donald Trump pledged to end the war in Ukraine within his first 24 hours in office. But nearly 100 days into his second term, the conflict between Moscow and Kyiv grinds on. Russian ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was ...