Archaeologists in northern Iraq have uncovered some extraordinary Assyrian rock carvings dating back around 2,700 years. The discovery was made in Nineveh, east of Mosul, by a joint US-Iraqi ...

A bidding war at Christie's this week sent the price of a 3,000-year-old stone relief from $7 million to more than $28 million, setting a world record for ancient Assyrian artworks and raising fears ...

The site at Halamata cave on Zawa Mountain, south of Duhok city, is nearly 3,000 years old. It is known as the Maltai reliefs and depicts King Sennacherib who ruled the Assyrian empire from 704 to 681 ...

This spring, the Assyrian reliefs will be the focus of two exciting programs. This spring, the Assyrian reliefs will be the focus of two exciting programs. On Wednesday, April 24th, Dr. Yelena Rakic ...

Buried treasure: the valuable Banquet Scene (645BC-635BC) is stored on the floor of the museum's basement galleries. (The Trustees of the British Museum) The British Museum's hidden basement galleries ...

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 ...

The Assyrian relief sculptures in this exhibition are some of the most extraordinary pieces in the Bowdoin collection. Carved at the behest of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II in the ninth century B ...