king of Assyria 726-722 Atalia, Queen of Sargon II, king of Assyria 721-705 Outline showing the location Citadel with respect to the city of Nimrud. The western corner of the city with the new path of ...

it was Assyria's Egyptian allies that filled the power vacuum. According to the Bible, the last king of the Jews, Josiah, was killed by Pharaoh Necho II in the biblical city of Megiddo.

The Assyrian conqueror Sargon II (8th century BCE) boasted that "Uperi, king of Dilmun, who lives like a fish in the middle of the sea," had paid him tribute. The last Neo-Babylonian ruler ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of an Egyptian army where an Israelite king was killed. The discoveries at Megiddo, ...

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

Egypt's Valley of the Kings is part of a massive necropolis along the Nile that includes the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, Thutmose II's wife and half-sister. The king's tomb was discovered in ...

XXIX, 1841 A study of the materials and techniques of the tester over the tomb of Richard II... thesis by Abigail Weatherill, 2010. History of the King's Works - vol. 1 edited by H.M. Colvin, 1963 ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is staging Christopher Marlowe’s play about a Medieval king who chose queer love over his kingdom. Edward II, the first English king to be deposed, reigned from ...

A leading architect who once accused the King of using his “privileged position” to intervene in a planning process is among those shortlisted to design a national memorial to Elizabeth II ...

On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...