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 ...

Dr. J. Hays Ward, editor of the Independent, who conducted the Wolf expedition to Babylon, gave a very interesting account of "Explorations in Babylon and Assyria" yesterday morning before the ...

Babylon, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, existed from roughly 2000 B.C. to 540 B.C. ... Further campaigns against Assyria and Mari further expanded Hammurabi's empire.

The Assyrians are well known for their vast ancient empire in the Middle East; ancient cities, such as Nimrud and Nineveh; and their fierce invasions, including into the Kingdom of Judah and Egypt.

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Clay bricks from the building projects of ancient kings recorded a historical “map” of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, a new study has found. About 3,000 years ago, for reasons that ...

The story of ancient Assyria is one of extraordinary longevity and startling evanescence. Assyrian history sprawls out over millennia. As early as the third millennium B.C., a coherent identity ...

ZELLER: And there's evidence of Jingle Bells in ancient Sumer and Babylonia and Assyria and Egypt. There's also very ancient evidence of jingle bells in India as well.

Emerging from the city-state of Ashur, located in modern-day Iraq, Assyria undertook numerous often-violent military campaigns to spread its rule into Babylonia and other regions; but its kings also ...