A single piece of jewellery reveals the true meaning of Assyrian reliefs from the 7th-Century BC. Kelly Grovier explores how images depicting a staged lion hunt were used to proclaim a king's ...

This verse from the Bible likely sounds familiar to many; it refers to the conquest of the Mesopotamian city by Cyrus the Great and the Persians in 539 BCE, the year they ended a period of Babylonian ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” archaeological finds of all time. Almost everything we know about the Assyrian ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Nineveh, present-day Mosul in Iraq, unearthed one of the most astonishing finds in history: the Library of Ashurbanipal, the great ...

In one of the most memorable scenes in “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, the world’s oldest epic, the eponymous hero confronts Humbaba, a monster who guards the Cedar Forest, the realm of the gods at the edge ...

Archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a discovery in Iraq, unearthing fragments of a monumental bas-relief dating back to the 7th century BCE in the throne room of the North Palace of ...

It’s a remarkably rare discovery both because of its size and what it depicts. Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Nineveh—now Mosul, Iraq—have unearthed a gigantic statue depicting King ...

The great king Ashurbanipal was seriously not into lions, absolutely hated the things. The first of many gorgeously detailed Assyrian wall reliefs in this mesmerising exhibition depicts the king ...

A single piece of jewellery reveals the true meaning of Assyrian reliefs from the 7th-Century BC. Kelly Grovier explores how images depicting a staged lion hunt were used to proclaim a king's ...