Showrunner Allan Heinberg also spoke with THR about father-and-son Dream and Orpheus, and how their Part 1 ending will drive ...

In a startling development, archaeologists say these mysterious skeletons are the father and son of this legendary ruler.

Rocketing up the Netflix charts, 'The Old Guard 2' has a lot of layers and some surprises behind the curtain, director ...

The Citadel has become a bona fide tourist destination, attracting international visitors who often arrive with empty ...

The Kingdom of Bashan, with its strategic geography and rich natural resources, formed a central pillar in the construction ...

Taken together, the four inscriptions establish at least the bare bones of her story: The queen definitely lived in the Assyrian Empire between the ninth and eighth centuries B.C., was married to ...

The study, published in Oannes, highlights how Sargon II, king of Assyria, applied a military strategy in 714 B.C. against Urartian forces that mirrors Hannibal's tactics against Rome in 218 B.C. The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ashurbanipal is having a moment. Some 2,600 years after his death, the King of Assyria has been the subject ...

On one occasion, King Rusa I used Mount Uaush to halt the Assyrian advance, although he was ultimately defeated by Sargon II. The Euphrates also marked strategic borders, containing Assyrian ambitions ...

In those days, the area that is now Iraq was part of the powerful Assyrian Empire. King Sargon II had a new capital built at Khorsabad near Mosul, but after the death of its founder the city lost ...