Scientists have uncovered evidence for three previously unknown kings who briefly ruled one of the world's most powerful ancient civilisations.

For approximately a century, researchers studying the Assyrian Empire's history have relied on the Assyrian King List (AKL) as the definitive record of Assyrian monarchs and their chronology, ...

The statement said that Mayor Türkan Kayir was expelled from the Assyrian organizations of which she was a member and from the DEM Party. She remained politically independent before joining the ruling ...

Stephen Compton, an expert in Near Eastern archaeology, used modern mapping techniques to identify the remains of what he believes to be ancient Assyrian military camps dating back to around 700 B.C.

The stele has since been moved to the Inspectorate’s headquarters to undergo initial restoration work so that it can be studied in depth. A fragment of an ancient stele dating to the reign of the ...

(AINA) -- Assyrian identity is not a passing affiliation or a distant historical memory; it is a living, evolving project that carries within it thousands of years of civilization, knowledge, ...

Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose project had ...

Israeli and American archaeologists say they have managed to reconstruct how the Assyrian army may have built a massive ramp to breach the Judean city of Lachish in 701 BCE, deepening their ...

Turkey’s Ilisu dam will flood hundreds of ancient sites, including the city of Tušhan, but there is now a rich record of what will be lost It’s a sad fact of archaeological life that we can often only ...