A round 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose ...

Lachish Reliefs (made around 700 BC). Stone panel, found in northern Iraq. Three thousand years ago, the world was, as usual, at war. On the face of it this might seem surprising, as the entire ...

According to the Louvre, in the 8th century, King Sargon II reigned over the Assyrian Empire and founded a new capital in 713 BC. Sargon chose a "sprawling site at the foot of Mount Musri in the ...

In the mountains of eastern Anatolia, during the Iron Age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC, a kingdom arose that challenged ... and the constant pressure from the Assyrian Empire, the Urartians ...