The purchase of a 3,000-year-old Assyrian sculpture at Christie’s on Wednesday for a record US$31 million has upset members of the Assyrian community, who view the ancient gypsum relief as part of ...

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 ...

The director of the Metropolitan Museum was joined by professors and experts around the world expressing shock and outrage today over the video documentation by ISIS militants of their destruction of ...

SAN JOSE — While most Americans may know Assyrian culture by what they learned about ancient civilizations in history class, a new art show spotlights the contemporary experiences of ethnic Assyrians ...

Installation view of Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq. From the 800s to the 600s B.C., the kings of Assyria built grand palaces in their capital cities, located in the land we know today as Iraq.

Christie’s New York will auction an important Assyrian relief on behalf of the Virginia Theological Seminary, the largest accredited Episcopal seminary in the U.S., which has housed the ancient ...

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Monday, January 23. Milly Thompson Has Died ...

The excavation was announced by Iraqi authorities last week. (all photos by Mustafa Faraj, courtesy Mustafa Faraj and Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage) A team of French and Iraqi ...

A "die-in" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in solidarity with Iranian protesters, organized by the group "Woman Life Freedom" (photo by innyworld, courtesy Women Life Freedom NYC) This weekend, more ...

Thanks to plenty of snow and a sculptor’s hand, a Skokie neighborhood is home to a temporary art installation. On display in the 8900 block of Bronx Avenue last week was a snow sculpture of a mythical ...

As a professor studying art crime, I keep a close eye on online sales of antiquities. I was especially worried three years ago when I spotted a listing for an ancient Assyrian sculpture on the website ...