Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...
The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved the capital to Dur-Sharukin (modern Khorshabad) in 717 B.C. The city is located 4 miles south-west of ...
beyond the Sambatyon. "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and he carried them away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan ...
They bore the names of the Assyrian kings at the time of use, including Shalmansser III (858-824), Sargon (721-705), Sennacherib (704-681). The Official Aramaic later became accepted as the standard ...
It does, however, fit descriptions of the hunting reliefs discovered on Assyrian palaces in Nineveh. This confusion may be due, in part, to the fact that some kings of Assyria, such as Sennacherib ...
to the august lives of Assyrian kings, to the secrets of making a Babylonian stew. Of the estimated half-million cuneiform objects that have been excavated, many have yet to be catalogued and ...
The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art were carved more than 2500 years ago for the palaces and temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ...
An archaeologist's discovery may corroborate parts of an epic biblical story detailing an infamous siege of Jerusalem. In a ...
After the traumatic events at the end of the reign of Sargon II the warrior-image of the Assyrian king changed again from individual heroism to a more sublime form, in which the simple royal presence ...
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