A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

"The finding bears witness to the exercise of Assyrian hegemony in the region ... which revealed a decorative rock relief carved into a wall panel. The panel depicts a procession of gods and ...

TEHRAN - A team of German archaeologists from Heidelberg University has made a major archaeological breakthrough in the ...

The newly discovered relief depicts King Ashurbanipal in a divine conference with two preeminent Assyrian deities.

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.

The relief panel is the only surviving representation of an Assyrian king and queen dining and is one of the few images of royal women. The gypsum sculpture was excavated in the north palace of ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

Housed in the British Museum's Northwest Palace collection, an intriguing Assyrian relief has sparked intense debate about ... Located in Room B, Panel 11 (catalog number WA124541) of the British ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered ...

An ancient Assyrian artefact stolen from one of the ... it has added symbolic value.” The relief panel is substantial. Weighing around 52 stone, it is 5ft wide and 4ft long.