Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

The finding is particularly significant because it disproves the long-held hypothesis that the Xiongnu—a tribal confederation active in Inner Asia between the 3rd century BCE and the 2nd century ...

In the seventh century BCE, at the height of Assyrian imperial power, scribes working under King Ashurbanipal compiled what would become the oldest known library in human history. Housed in the palace ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

The relief shows the seventh-century BC ruler of the Assyrian empire alongside two prominent deities and other figures. It ...

The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world for centuries. At its height, it stretched from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, ...

The only woman ever to have ruled the mighty Assyrian Empire, Semiramis titillated writers and painters from the Roman period to the 19th century. Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon ...

It was in the 8th century BCE that the first administrative inscriptions appeared, attesting to the existence of a bureaucratic system—particularly in Israel under the reign of Jeroboam II (ca ...