Three artifacts discovered in Kalu; site in Peran town- Merka sur district, northern of Iraq. There is on one of them a Syriac inscription Source: Nassem Sadiq Three jars have been found ...

However, it wasn't a precious gem, intricate artifact, or a hidden scripture, but rather a seemingly mundane brick. The story ...

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Babylon and Assyria. Differences in the ruins described. Dangers in traveling through the area. Layard's visit to area made him desire to investigate the ruins, but circumstances hindered him for a ...

The artifact, thus, demonstrates the influence of the Assyrian Empire—a major civilization of the ancient Near East that had conquered the Israelite Kingdom of Judah, including its capital ...

Starting from a base in Mesopotamia, the Neo-Assyrian Empire (883–609 B.C.) expanded to control territory that stretched from western Iran to the Mediterranean and from Anatolia to Egypt.

When British archaeologist Max Mallowan investigated the neo-Assyrian site of Nimrud in northern ... 1949 to 1957 to register and photograph the artifacts that her husband’s excavations brought ...