Front of the throne base of Shalmaneser III of Assyria, showing the Assyrian king and Marduk-zakir-šumi I of Babylon shaking hands in a public display of Assyro-Babylonian friendship. From Kalhu. Iraq ...

This verse from the Bible likely sounds familiar to many; it refers to the conquest of the Mesopotamian city by Cyrus the Great and the Persians in 539 BCE, the year they ended a period of Babylonian ...

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Yale historian Frahm (coeditor, Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks) delivers a comprehensive and accessible look at the rise, fall, and historical impact of the Assyrian Empire. From its beginnings at the ...

Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Mar Gewargis III, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, visited the territories of the Nineveh Plain, liberated from the occupation of the militia of the Islamic State ...

It is precisely because the Mosul Museum director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah seems so composed during “Returning to Babylon” that his pain seems all the more acute, his anger just barely repressed.

This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection/Age ...

FRESNO — An Iraqi exile who fled his homeland almost 40 years ago got a $2.4-million deposit in a trust account this week from the confiscated assets of the Iraqi government, one of a number of ...

Visualizing the greatest metropolis in the ancient world requires the full powers of imagination. This is partly due to simple geology. The sun-hardened mud bricks favored by Babylon’s builders have ...

A Assyrian teacher writes on the blackboard during an Assyrian language class in Baghdad November 20, 2012. (Saad Shalash/Reuters) Language is the gatekeeper of knowledge. Every language carries with ...