An ancient Persian inscription, preserved since the inauguration of the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro in 1909, was ...

A carved stone slab standing roughly six feet tall and bearing royal inscriptions from ancient Nineveh has given researchers ...

Archaeologists working at one of the ancient gates of Nineveh in northern Iraq have found a second large Assyrian stone slab ...

Following the media coverage of the latest discovery of Assyrian inscriptions in Turkey, some public comments drew special ...

In Lord Byron’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the king of the title laments that the glory of his empire will someday fade into oblivion. “Time shall quench full many a people’s records, and a hero’s acts ...

Rabban Hormizd Monastery in the town of Alqosh, which has been the site of recent tensions due to the forced removal of its elected Assyrian mayor Fayez Abed Jawahreh and his replacement with a ...

The Neo-Assyrian Empire, centered in northern Iraq and extending from Iran to Egypt—the largest empire of its time—collapsed after more than two centuries of dominance at the fall of its capital, ...

An exclusive interview with His Beatitude Mar Meelis Zaia, Metropolitan of Australia, New Zealand and Lebanon, discussing the ...

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Ancient Mesopotamia, the fabled land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the command and control center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. This ancient superpower was the largest empire of its ...