What it tells us about the past: This carved relief from Nimrud, a major city of the ancient Assyrian Empire in present-day Iraq, regularly drifts around the internet as purported evidence for ...

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

( The Trustees of the British Museum) The correspondence between Sargon II, king of Assyria (721-705 BC), and his governors and magnates is the largest text corpus of this kind known from antiquity ...

This carved relief from Nimrud, a major city of the ancient Assyrian Empire in present-day Iraq, regularly drifts around the internet as purported evidence for scuba diving nearly 3,000 years ago. But ...

Under King Sennacherib in the late eighth century BC, Nineveh became the capital of the Assyrian Empire, and under Ashurbanipal — its last great king — it reached unprecedented intellectual ...

According to this record, King Priam of Troy was a vassal of the Assyrians. While this does not mean that Assyria ruled directly over Troy, it would mean that Troy was part of the Assyrian Empire.

Stunning 12-Ton Assyrian Relief Unearthed in Iraq Reveals Legendary King Alongside the Gods The king was flanked by gods and mythical guardians.

O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you…” This verse, spoken by Moses to his people, recognises the land’s divine allocation to the Israelites. Surah Al-Isra (17:104) further ...

Alexander the Great's siege of the island city of Tyre used all the innovation and cunning worthy of a conqueror still known ...

More than 1,000 people in Juneau participated in a “No Kings” protest Saturday, joining millions taking part in over 2,000 similar gatherings nationwide to oppose what they called corruption ...

The demonstrations are part of a massive, nationwide “No Kings Day of Defiance” protest against the president and his policies.