On 10 June 2026, the NEAstr project team held its second workshop, on the theme of 'Late antique astronomical sciences in ...

Ashurbanipal monument underscores the province's cultural resurgence nearly a decade after ISIS destruction ...

Stephen Compton, an expert in Near Eastern archaeology, used modern mapping techniques to identify the remains of what he believes to be ancient Assyrian military camps dating back to around 700 B.C.

From the ashes of a shattered Assyrian world, a new empire arose under one of antiquity's most formidable rulers. This is the ...

'We had a saying in those days. To shine shoes like an Assyrian,' begins Valery. 'There’s a reason why that profession was so popular among Assyrians – when you live dispersed, all over the world, and ...

Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose project had ...

The finding provides “direct evidence of official correspondence between the Assyrian Empire and the Kingdom of Judah," according to an excavation expert. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered a ...

On a sky-blue Sunday morning in the little town of Tell Tamer in northeastern Syria, sunlight pours through olive trees, dappling the path to a church that has for almost a century been the center of ...