The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art were carved more than 2500 years ago for the palaces and temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ...

The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of Nimrud). The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ...

The king's role in expanding, defending, and marking the borders of the Empire has been ... The workshop has enlisted renowned and esteemed international scholars from the field of Neo-Assyrian ...

Among several bronze lion-weights found at Nineveh some had both the Akkadian and Aramaic text inscribed on them. They bore the names of the Assyrian kings at the time of use, including Shalmansser ...

beyond the Sambatyon. "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and he carried them away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan ...

The construction of the ancient capital of Assyria - Khorsabad (originally Dur-Sharrukin, "Fortress of Sargon") was initiated by King Sargon II in 713 BC. After Sargon II died in 705 BC ...

Assyrian festival costumes. Credit: AANF.jpg Day 8: On this day, the king would hold the hand of God Marduk and introduce him to other gods. Then all those gods would give their power to Marduk ...

After the traumatic events at the end of the reign of Sargon II the warrior-image of the Assyrian king changed again from individual heroism to a more sublime form, in which the simple royal presence ...

The construction of the ancient capital of Assyria—Khorsabad (originally Dur-Sharrukin, "Fortress of Sargon")—was started by King Sargon II in 713 BC. After Sargon II died in 705 BC ...