Initially driven by impoverished Bedouins, attacks escalated into deadly assaults on tourist hubs like Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

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

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, found in the ruins ...

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military campaigns of Ashurbanipal, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was discovered in ...

a historian who specializes in the Neo-Assyrian Empire who was not involved in the Khorsabad survey, told Live Science in an email. Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II started building his giant new ...

But the rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, in the 9th and 10th centuries BCE, changed things. This was the world’s first truly hegemonic empire, and it was relentlessly imperialistic. Israel ...

Sennacherib was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sargon II in 705 BCE to his own death in 681 BCE. The second king of the Sargonid dynasty, Sennacherib is one of ...

The neo-Assyrian empire and its neighbours The Neo-Assyrian Empire, representing the height of Assyrian power from roughly 911 -- 609 BCE, was the largest empire on earth at that point in history. As ...

"The figure of a winged man in a distinct Neo-Assyrian style is unique and very rare in the glyphic styles of the late First Temple period. "The influence of the Assyrian Empire, which had ...

noting that “the figure of a winged man in a distinct Neo-Assyrian style is unique and very rare in the glyphic styles of the late First Temple period. The influence of the Assyrian Empire ...