The Banquet Scene, more than 2,600 years old, depicts Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. (The Trustees of the British Museum) One of the greatest surviving Assyrian reliefs has been off show at the British ...

The British Museum at present has four galleries on its main floor showing sculptures from Assyria, mostly from Nimrud. These Assyrian rooms date back to the 1850s and were last remodelled in 1970.

The palace was rediscovered by a British Museum-led archaeological expedition in late 1853—during which several large-scale reliefs, now on display in the museum in London, were uncovered.

He was 28 years old, held no formal training in archaeology, and, having failed to convince the British Museum of the expedition’s merits, was short of funds. This would soon change.

Siege scene with two massive L-shaped shields protecting Assyrian soldiers, in a relief from the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III at Nimrud (credit: Courtesy of the British Museum) ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

"Among the many relief images of Assyrian palaces we know of, there are no depictions of major deities," he said. Nineveh established itself as one of the most influential cultural capitals in the ...

Archaeologists in northern Iraq have uncovered some extraordinary Assyrian rock carvings dating back around 2,700 years. The discovery was made in Nineveh, east of Mosul, by a joint US-Iraqi ...

Archaeologists in northern Iraq have uncovered some extraordinary Assyrian rock carvings dating back around 2,700 years. The discovery was made in Nineveh, east of Mosul, by a joint US-Iraqi ...