This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

entered a golden age under Assyrian king Sennacherib, who made the city his capital before dying in 681 B.C.E. Later, Ashurbanipal established Mesopotamia’s first organized library in Nineveh.

But further examination of the smaller objects which were found in the ruins of the Assyrian palace at Nineveh ... as the nucleus of the Royal Library at Nineveh.

Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

In 1845, an Englishman named Austen Henry Layard set out from Constantinople in search of Nineveh, the last capital of the Assyrian Empire. He was 28 years old, held no formal training in ...

A team of archaeologists began working at the ancient palace of King Ashurbanipal, “the last great ruler of the Assyrian empire,” in Nineveh in ... organized library in Mesopotamia and the ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was made ...

the last great ruler of the Assyrian empire. He is flanked by two supreme deities: the gods Ashur and Ishtar, patron goddess of Nineveh. They are both followed by a fish genius, who grants the ...