We know now that the empire did fight many wars, but most of them were very small scale, the army was not that big and most of the conflicts were solved by police forces, not by large scale ...

Assyrians are Christians. They belong to three main Assyrian churches: 1) The Assyrian Church of the East ("Nestorian"), established in 33 A.D. by Theodos, Thomas, and Bartholomew; 2) the Syriac ...

The king's role in expanding, defending, and marking the borders of the Empire has been studied rather well ... The workshop has enlisted renowned and esteemed international scholars from the field of ...

The precious pre-Islamic artifacts destroyed by the jihadists are now in pieces, but the archaeologists working in Nimrud are undaunted by the colossal task they face ...

prompting the king's retreat to Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire. The locations of the camps constructed during ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site was ... which had all graced the palace of Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II nearly 3,000 years ago.

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as ... At this time the Assyrians had carved an empire that stretched from Egypt to the Persian Gulf but this empire ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site was ... which had all graced the palace of Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II nearly 3,000 years ago.