In Nineveh, the Assyrian capital in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, the king built a magnificent palace known as the North Palace. He ...

"The expansion of the Assyrian empire revived the manufacture and trade of luxury goods. It also led to the exchange of ...

During this period the dominant powers in the East were Assyria and then Babylonia. Each established an extensive empire which was based on Mesopotamia, and each in turn fell largely through internal ...

Gavriel Fiske is a reporter at The Times of Israel The Assyrian Empire’s siege of Jerusalem in 701 BCE is mentioned in the Bible, in Assyrian records and later, by ancient historians such as ...

Ruled by Hammurabi, restored by Nebuchadrezzar, conquered by Cyrus—this city in the heart of Mesopotamia was both desired and despised, placing it at the center stage of the dawn of history.

A senior Liberal offical has called on the Victorian government to recognise the Greek, Armenian, Assyrian and Maronite ...

They are descendants of a powerful Middle Eastern empire and early followers of Christianity ... the United States identify their ancestry as Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac, according to U.S. Census ...

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 ...