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 ...

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 ...

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 British archaeologist believes his team may have found a second tomb in Egypt belonging to King Thutmose II. The potential find comes just days after Piers Litherland announced the discovery of ...

For the first time in more than a century, a pharaoh's tomb has been uncovered in Egypt. The tomb of King Thutmose II was found in a joint Egyptian-British archaeological expedition by the Supreme ...

A British-Egyptian team has made one of the most significant Egyptian archeological finds in recent history: the tomb of pharaoh King Thutmose II, who ruled sometime between 2000 and 1001 BCE. This is ...

England's last encounter with a King Philip was when Philip II of Spain technically co-ruled the country with his wife, Queen "Bloody" Mary, in the 16th century. Philip not only abandoned Mary ...

they all spoke about the greatness of the Late Ashur Sargon Eskrya. most people's impression was that the Assyrian Aid Society-Australia did a very good job to show the respect and honour that ...

Here's 50 little known facts about the Coronation Day of Queen Elizabeth II. A coronation is a ceremony marking the formal investiture of a monarch with regal power. In 1937, the 11 year old Princess ...

Sargon Petyou is visiting Australia from Denmark ... to be staged in Sydney with the corporation of local Australian Assyrian talents. He says he fell in love with Sydney and it's people for ...

A year later, on Bruce’s death, he succeeded as David II King of Scots. Meanwhile, Robert’s father Walter had died in 1326, which made the ten-year old Robert the High Steward of Scotland. The ...