Opening at the Penn Museum on Feb. 8, 2025, the Preserving Assyria exhibition will showcase a rendering of a restored palace wall in Nineveh. (Penn Museum) Philadelphia -- In conflict zones like Syria ...
More than 2,500 years ago, the Assyrians in Nineveh built the first great empire in human history. Excelling in science, engineering and warfare, they were the beginnings of modern civilization. But ...
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'Quite enigmatic': Rare stone carving of Assyrian king surrounded by gods discovered in Iraq
In the center of the relief stands Ashurbanipal, the last king of the Assyrian Empire, who ruled from 669 to 631 B.C. He is flanked by the ancient Mesopotamian gods Ashur and Ishtar, and they are ...
Fragment of the discovered relief. (Aaron Schmitt) A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ...
Archaeologists have made remarkable finds at Tell Nabi Yunus, Iraq, a site located just southeast of the ancient city of Nineveh. The 2025 excavation campaign, led by a German team from the University ...
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