Found amidst the ruins of a Neo-Assyrian palace in modern-day Iraq ... the brick exemplified ancient building practices. Unlike modern kiln-fired bricks, these sun-dried versions preserved ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — An ancient Assyrian palace, part of a 3,000-year-old Iraqi archaeological site Islamic State forces reportedly destroyed, is still intact in a virtual world at the Williams College ...

The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of Nimrud). The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ...

The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art were carved more than 2500 years ago for the palaces and temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ...

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Such palaces were built partially with stones from nearby Assyrian churches and villages. Modern Chaldean-Assyrian church in Iraq. Chaldean-Assyrian monastery in North Iraq. Ancient Assyrian Christian ...

No ancient city was so desired and feared ... It does, however, fit descriptions of the hunting reliefs discovered on Assyrian palaces in Nineveh. This confusion may be due, in part, to the ...

The ancient site of Numrud before (below ... remaining ancient sites were insufficient Mr Mekhail notes that an Assyrian palace was discovered under the mosque of Nabi Yunus (Prophet Jonah ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...