The British Museum has introduced sensory-rich immersive experience in two galleries, working with global design and ...

But nearly a century earlier, in 648 BCE, the city had already endured a similar tragedy when the Assyrian Ashurbanipal (the Sardanapalus of classical literature) destroyed it and massacred its ...

Ashurbanipal II built a grand palace decorated with multiple "lamassu" monuments: statues of lions or winged bulls, each with the head of a bearded man. The "Bull of Nimrud" is among the many ...