BOSTON -- Ashurnasirpal II, Assyria's self-proclaimed "great king, mighty king, king of the universe," invited 70,000 guests to a 10-day housewarming party in 860 BC to show off his impressive new ...

Opening at the Penn Museum on Feb. 8, 2025, the Preserving Assyria exhibition will showcase a rendering of a restored palace wall in Nineveh. (Penn Museum) Philadelphia -- In conflict zones like Syria ...

A forthcoming British Museum exhibition on Assyria will draw attention to the recent destruction of antiquities in Iraq. The show, which opens in November, is to focus on King Ashurbanipal, whose ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. At its height in the 8th to 7th century B.C., the Assyrian Empire was the dominant ...

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A delegation from Assyrian Universal Alliance Australia chapter and Assyrian Australian National Federation visited the Jewish Museum in Sydney last weekend to participate and see the opening of a new ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The Directorate of Assyrian Culture and Traditional Art Museum is now open in ...

A video released on Thursday by ISIS shows members of the terrorist organization destroying ancient Assyrian artifacts at the Mosul Museum and the nearby Nineveh archaeological site. “The prophet ...

The British Museum has unveiled plans for an exhibition on the “forgotten figure” who was once “the most powerful person on Earth” – King Ashurbanipal. The 7th-century king, a “complicated character”, ...

A forthcoming British Museum exhibition on Assyria will draw attention to the recent destruction of antiquities in Iraq. The show, which opens in November, is to focus on King Ashurbanipal, whose ...