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

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

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 ...

Their incursions into the Near East in the 7th century BCE reached as far as Palestine, shocking the Assyrian empire, ... Map of Ancient Scythia.

As University of Pennsylvania archaeology professor Brian Rosen explained, "Many people haven't heard of the Phrygians, but from about the 9th to the 7th Centuries BCE, they dominated Asia Minor ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, found in the ruins ...

Broken pieces of Egyptian pottery, dating back to the 7th century BC, are the fragments uncovered at the ancient city of Megiddo in northern Israel which is claimed to show that there was an epic ...

The earliest relevant information to help us ascertain which group of Ethiopians was led by Memnon comes from the seventh century BCE. This is very early in the context of the legend of the Trojan War ...

As Assyrian power declined, in the 7th century BCE, Egypt, which had reasserted its independence, took the side of a failing Assyria against the rising power of Babylonia.

Together with Hittite, its sister language, it formed one of the main linguistic families of this region and survived the fall of the Hittite Empire in the 12th century BCE, extending its use to the ...