The monumental, 18-ton body of the ancient winged deity will now be reunited with its head, held at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. A newly-unearthed Assyrian Lamassu (human-headed winged bull) ...

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 ...

The sculpture of the Assyrian deity Lamassu was commissioned during the reign of King Sargon II, who ruled from 722 to 705 BC. (AFP pic) A dig in northern Iraq has unearthed a 2,700-year-old alabaster ...

It was from Assyria, known as Mesopotamia (between the Tigris and Euphrates) that the first civilization began, and gave rise to an intellectual thought process that helped build scientific as well as ...

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A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into tens of thousands of tiny fragments. Once the ...

A recently discovered tunnel at Basbük in southeastern Turkey has revealed artwork depicting eight gods, three of which were labeled with Aramaic inscriptions, according to a new study in the academic ...

In this Sunday, April 1, 2018 photo, an Assyrian Christian militiaman guards a park where his community is celebrating Easter and the Assyrian New Year, or Akitu, in the village of Tal Arboush, ...