The sarcophagus in the tomb chamber contained hundreds of items including jewelry, vessels, ornaments, seals and other goods. The items displayed Syrian and Phoenician iconography in addition to ...

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 ...

(ACOR) Amman -- Petra's architecture had been under the strong Greco-Roman influence, but other styles were also seen, originating from Assyria. In 1862, the architect Jakob Ignaz Hittorffdrew ...

My grandmother was Assyrian. She hailed from Iraq, spoke modern Aramaic, and prayed like clockwork each morning before preparing breakfast. My grandmother's story seems unremarkable, but to take ...

“A part of actually having jewelry,” one designer said, “is also what you do with it when you’re not wearing it.” By Jessica Bumpus Introducing a jewelry box had “always been a topic ...

There are questions—good ones—that inevitably arise when embarking on a jewelry collecting journey: Should I buy by stone or by design? By preference or by historical period? Is just really ...

It consists of a collection of jewelry and amulets made of gold and precious stones, dating back to the early 26th Dynasty (664–525 B.C.), one of the key periods of Late Egypt. The discovery took ...

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A decade of jewelry collecting has taught me that where you keep your treasures matters as much as the treasures themselves. Otherwise, you risk scuffed gold, tangled chains, or, even worse ...

To many, high quality, affordable jewelry may seem like an oxymoron. Among high-end fine jewelry brand offerings and high-street designer dupes, the middle ground may be hard to spot. Luckily ...

Bone tool carved on an elephant humerus 1.5 million years ago. Credit: CSIC An archaeological discovery in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has changed our understanding of the technological evolution of ...