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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Object Details Author Partington, J. R (James Riddick) 1886-1965 Notes "A reasonably concise and systematic account of the sources, production and uses of materials in Egypt, Babylonia and Assyria, ...

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.

In 612 Nineveh, the ancient capital of Assyria, was taken by the Medes and Babylonians and the latter inherited the former Assyrian empire; Babylon now ruled all Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine and ...