Petra Treasury is a monument carved by the Nabataean craftsmen who operated under ... but other styles were also seen, originating from Assyria. In 1862, the architect Jakob Ignaz Hittorffdrew ...

Housed in the British Museum's Northwest Palace collection, an intriguing Assyrian relief has sparked intense debate ... but it doesn't help the case that there's a carving of what looks like scuba ...

Archaeologists Stunned to Find Evidence of a Town Supporting a Biblical Tale of Angels Killing 185,000 Soldiers Biblical ...

Petra Treasury is a monument carved by the Nabataean craftsmen who operated under ... but other styles were also seen, originating from Assyria. In 1862, the architect Jakob Ignaz Hittorffdrew ...

Geni/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0 When Austen Henry Layard unearthed an 8th-century-BC piece of rock crystal at the Assyrian palace ... quartzite egg was covered with carvings, including an ear of ...

After his death, vengeful rivals burned Ashurbanipal’s library to the ground – yet the texts, carved on clay tablets, were baked and preserved by the heat. Buried for millennia, the tablets ...

Geni/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0 When Austen Henry Layard unearthed an 8th-century-BC piece of rock crystal at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud in Iraq ... they discovered the quartzite egg was covered with ...

The “Western Range” accommodates the museum’s most impressive artefacts — huge stone pieces from Ancient Egypt, Assyria ... mass of stone that has been carved out to create living spaces.

Philadelphia, Pa -- The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq and showcases the rise of the New Assyrian Empire.

The setting was war-torn northeast Syria. Within the territory controlled by Kurdish fighters was a string of Assyrian Christian farming villages along the Khabur River. These Assyrians had ...