In Lord Byron’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the king of the title laments that the glory of his empire will someday fade into oblivion. “Time shall quench full many a people’s records, and a hero’s acts ...

A fragment of The Death of Sardanapalus, a painting by Delacroix restored by the Louvre in 2023. (Wikimedia Commons) There are historical figures who, for various reasons, transcend their status to ...

The Taylor Prism was discovered in 1830 at Nineveh and is currently housed at the British Museum in London. Imagine if all of the world's ancient cultures and civilizations had had well-developed ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

In 1845, an Englishman named Austen Henry Layard set out from Constantinople in search of Nineveh, the last capital of the Assyrian Empire. He was 28 years old, held no formal training in archaeology, ...

The exhibition will tell the story of the Assyrian leader who claimed he was ‘King of The World’. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on in the West ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered a 2,700-year-old pottery fragment inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform, offering what experts describe as the first direct evidence of royal Assyrian ...

The standard inscription of Ashurnasirpal II (883-850 B.C.) -- The Assyrian phenomenon : an introductory essay / by Susanna Hare -- The palace and reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II / by Edith Porada -- ...

The Palace of Sennacherib, the Assyrian King who captured Jerusalem about 700 before the Christian era, has been unearthed by a University of Chicago expedition. Prof. Edward Chiera. just returned ...